Mark Canton Quotes
I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.
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Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.
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The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.
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'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.
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We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.
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I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.'
