Mark Bridges Quotes
I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.
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The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
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You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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I would never accuse the Irish people of being in any way stupid.
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
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If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.
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I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place.
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What is left when honor is lost?
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I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years.
