Mark Leyner Quotes
Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.
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In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.
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I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.
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The No. 1 challenge is getting people to understand that Pinterest isn't a social network.
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When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.
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Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.
