Mark Bradford Quotes
Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
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I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.
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These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have somehow fallen through the gaps and found themselves, often through unimaginable circumstances, on the cusp of existence. In another reality, this could easily be me or you.
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I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.
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If acting doesn't work out I'd love to produce, direct, or write.
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Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.
