Mark Kurlansky Quotes
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
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If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
