Christopher Markus Quotes
There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
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I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.
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We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
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'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happening? A happening is a moment in time. A moment in time that is not choreographed, where you don't know precisely what's going on. Where there are aspects of different layers of culture.
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I was on 'Search for Tomorrow' for about nine months, then 'Another World' for two years.
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Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.
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There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.
