Mark Leyner Quotes
I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
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Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
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I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.
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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
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In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
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You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
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The West is dying. Its nations have ceased to reproduce, and their populations have stopped growing and begun to shrink. Not since the Black Death carried off a third of Europe in the fourteenth century has there been a graver threat to the survival of Western civilization.
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James Baldwin is probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective.
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If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.
Garry Kasparov
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As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.
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What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
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Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster.
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For me, acting is a series of impressions rather than trying to find one line through to the end, which risks becoming more of a presentation.
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I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
