Marc Almond Quotes

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

I truly don't believe in regret.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I'm not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.

So many years later, you watch yourself, and you're not critical of yourself anymore 'cause that's behind you.

There is no point staying on the past.

I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.