Mark Helprin Quotes
I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost instantly, the flip side. You have this terrible, terrible anxiety that you've just taken your last good picture.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
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I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
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The one thing we learned about community - you can't force community.
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I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.
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I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
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I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.
