Mark Leyner Quotes
I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
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Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.
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Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.
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Sometimes there are no good choices.
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.
