Mark Duplass Quotes
When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.
Quotes to Explore
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.
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In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.
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He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.
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There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.
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As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.
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When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.
