Mark Duplass Quotes
I think that 'Room 104' offered us an organic opportunity to tell all kinds of stories with all kinds of protagonists.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.
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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
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When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.
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But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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I don't even know if it's possible, but if it were, I'd like to make those kinds of old movies where the women were articulate and intelligent and flawed and witty.
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You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
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Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.
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Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.
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I think that 'Room 104' offered us an organic opportunity to tell all kinds of stories with all kinds of protagonists.
