Mark Frost Quotes
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.
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This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other.
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You work for whatever you get in life.
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You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.
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Magic: The Gathering is like Dungeons and Dragons if D&D was played with cards and didn't take 18 weeks.
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I'm a realist about how the networks work.
