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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Since I got into the movies, 'Running Scared,' that did $40 million. 'Princess Bride,' I got good reviews for the character Miracle Max. 'Memories of Me' didn't do well. 'Throw Mama from the Train' did $70 million. 'Harry and Sally' did 95 or 96. 'City Slickers' did $120 million.
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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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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.
