Mark Lawrenson Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.
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What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.
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This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.
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Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.
