Mark Kurlansky Quotes
When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.
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I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.
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When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.
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So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.
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What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
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When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.
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When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.
