Mark Duplass Quotes
I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.
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I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.
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I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.
