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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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 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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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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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.
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I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.
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I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.
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KING: And the Palestinian people are the only people without a state...
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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.
