Mark Duplass Quotes
The only thing darker than 'Overboard' is 'Micki & Maude,' the bigamy comedy from 1984.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
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I always have to be writing.
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True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
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What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude.
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Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.
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Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.
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The only thing darker than 'Overboard' is 'Micki & Maude,' the bigamy comedy from 1984.
