Mark Duplass Quotes
You're taught - consciously or sub-consciously - to make an indie so you can get through that terrible process and get to Hollywood. I realized when I got there, 'Oh, no; I think I'm better over here.'
Quotes to Explore
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
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My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.
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Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.
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Alike and Equal are not the same.
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Words are but empty thanks.
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These poems were written by someone I once was and who is so distant to me now that I scarcely recognize him anymore. They speak for a time and a feeling which of course has gone from me but for which I still have a close affection and kinship.
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From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
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You can't escape from yourself, can you?
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The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.
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I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
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Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.
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It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?
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But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.
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A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.
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I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.
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Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.
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You're taught - consciously or sub-consciously - to make an indie so you can get through that terrible process and get to Hollywood. I realized when I got there, 'Oh, no; I think I'm better over here.'
