Mark Helprin Quotes
I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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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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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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A hungry man is an angry man.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.
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Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce.
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I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change.
