Mark Kurlansky Quotes
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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There's no reason any company should be limited by its physical environment.
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The lyrics came out of necessity. When we started writing the record, we started in a more fusion environment and that got boring really quick and that wasn't what we were about on an organic level.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.
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Poor is the new black.
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I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
