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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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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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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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
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Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we know when to stop and when to volley, when to make the sound. It's like music.
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I lift quite heavy weights, but unfortunately no one believes me.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.
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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.
