Mark-Anthony Turnage famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.
-- Mark-Anthony Turnage

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If you write something in the evening or at night, look back over it the next morning. I tend to be less self-critical at night; sometimes, I've looked back at things I wrote the night before, and realized they were no good at all.
-- Mark-Anthony Turnage

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Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.
-- Mark-Anthony Turnage

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For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation.
Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"
Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Mark-Anthony Turnage famous quotes

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