Mark Canton Quotes
Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I'm not into pancake things. I'm into eggs. Lots of eggs.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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It's better to just plough ahead. And if I say something they don't get, I just make fun of myself for assuming that everybody knows everything about where I live.
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Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.
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About shocking. You know I feel comfortable in my skin. I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.
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I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.
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I've learnt so much over time and with the experience that I've gained. You can't please everyone.
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Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.
