Mark McCormack Quotes
Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
Quotes to Explore
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
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The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
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Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
