Mark McGrath Quotes
I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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I always tell people if you want to do something, go to a great comedy show. And that's what I try to do: give people a really good comedy show.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
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I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.
