Mark McGrath Quotes
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.
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We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
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You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right. And you still have people trying to tear him down. They make up all sorts of lies, with the goal of making him seem illegitimate.
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Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
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A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. you're a moron. I have nothing to say, you know?
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The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.
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Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.
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I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.
