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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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.
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The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.
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Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.
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I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first. I don't want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot - mostly when I hear popular music.
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The fact that people can predict gravity wave sources that are within shouting distance makes me feel incredibly confident. Compared to monopoles, these sources are not just optimistic thinking.
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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.
