Mark Kurlansky Quotes
I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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They call me Fearless Felix.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
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I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
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It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
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I have a new hobby and it's pretty much logging.
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I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
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I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.
