Mark Helprin Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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It has been an amazing experience working on 'Half Girlfriend.'
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The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when carried out across the board.
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Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.
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The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.
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I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
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I have been fighting over commas all my life.
