Mark Kurlansky Quotes

I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

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• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Loss
  • Benefit
  • Sovereignty

• A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May

• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Real
  • Songs

• Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Negative

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• We always trend set.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Always
  • Trend

• There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Failure

• Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Play
  • Wall
  • Down

• Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Men
  • Women
  • View

• Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

  

  Larry David
  • Wanted
  • Really
  • Just

• You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Own

• Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Best
  • Sports
  • Training

• I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

  

  Amy Schumer
  • Funny
  • Road

• Filming movies and TV are vastly different. Film is more of slower pace. You usually have more time to develop characters, and it sometimes takes up to 3 months to film one movie. Sometimes you'll spend half the day filming one scene. TV moves much faster. It takes about 10 days to film an episode.

  

  Chad Lindberg
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Pain

• God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • God
  • Want
  • Jesus

• Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Real
  • American
  • College