Mark Feuerstein Quotes
I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?
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I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
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I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
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Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.
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We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don't regret he played for that period.
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It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated emotion.
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The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
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If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.
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I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?
