Mark Akenside Quotes
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
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This will end in tears.
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We cannot accept the fact that Jews wouldn't be entitled to live and buy anywhere in Jerusalem. I can only imagine what would happen if someone suggested Jews could not live in certain neighborhoods in New York, London, Paris or Rome. There would certainly be a major international outcry.
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The philosophy of friendship has definitely paid off, because after all the highs and lows we’re still sticking together and we haven’t lost the passion for what we’re doing. In the Seventies, there were few changes, then we had this line-up with Herman Rarebell and Francis Buchholz for almost twenty years.
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How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.
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The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.
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Any proposal that allows people who are here illegally to cut to the front of the line is amnesty.
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My mom always says I cut my teeth on the church pew.
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The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.
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Cosmoe is a one-man show until the community gets involved, and there is only so much I can do and still release something this year.
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A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.
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What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.
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If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
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When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
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Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
