Mark Morris Quotes
We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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I've had death threats, if you can imagine.
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You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.
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Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.
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I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
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One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself....instead of worrying, watch with fascination and wonder as your child's life unfolds, and help the child take responsibility for his or her own life.
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We're all in the same room, so I want people to be involved with one another, but again you can't decide exactly to what extent that operates. It varies all the time and it depends on the show, it depends on the audience, it depends on everything.
