Mark Goddard Quotes
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.
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I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.
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The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.
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I think most music provides the same messages - whether it be 'I'm unhappy' or 'I love a girl.' I just liked the package of rap music.
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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of Milton is that he functions as a Milton.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
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'Me, I am convinced it is the truth,' said M. Bouc, becoming more and more enamoured of his theory.
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'You have no mind to be unkind,' Said echo in her ear: 'No mind to bring a living thing To suffering or fear. For all that's bad, or mean or sad, you have no mind, my dear.'
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When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
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Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
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Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation, of archiving and curating, but also exploring, and understanding afresh and learning for the first time what it is that we need to know, and what the limits and boundaries are, and what the themes and preoccupations should be, and what the redemptive character of that erudition is. I find myself in the exciting position of doing all that, and at the same time having the obligation to explain to white people what the deal is.
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I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.
