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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'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.
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The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
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This is sad. I just think it’s a little ridiculous we are still only looking at the surface of one another. Red hair? Blue hair? Pink? Blonde? Short? Long? Whatever. We might as well shave our heads. Hair has nothing to do with the reason we playing music. It’s a style. Something that will never last as long as the songs we play and the words we sing. Listen up ladies in bands, I’m so proud to be one of you and I don’t care if we all look exactly alike or if we are all carbon copies of each other. We have things to say and it’s up to us to get people to not just look but to LISTEN!
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I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.
