Mark Lester Quotes
Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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I've had watermelon hair where I had pink with green tips. From the age of 13 to about 19 or 20, I never had my real hair color.
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I certainly didn't have a nanny.
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A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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I like to get real pretty.
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A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.
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The exalted moment of love is always full of promise: it is not closed in on itself, but open; we see its natural fruitfulness revealed in the child, even if its spiritual fruitfulness remains hidden.
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When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.
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The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is an agent that ensures the happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.
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Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description — an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
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If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.
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My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
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I've always maintained that the only things to uphold are the good, the true and the beautiful. We have to reject what's ugly.
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Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person – to say nothing of one's neighbor! – as God loves him.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.
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Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.
