Mark Kurlansky Quotes
How you solve your problems are quite different. In non-fiction, you can always go back to the research, whereas in fiction, you have to go back to yourself - which is a little bit scary.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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We care about margins.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
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Canada can be tough for urban music.
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Everybody can cook. You don't have to do anything fancy. You can do a nice antipasto spread with sardines, anchovies, some meats, marinated vegetables, fruits, cheese, nuts, and crackers.
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How you solve your problems are quite different. In non-fiction, you can always go back to the research, whereas in fiction, you have to go back to yourself - which is a little bit scary.
