Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes
I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
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Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part of my normal upbringing, but it's what gave me my start. I get a lot of my technical and high-flying wrestling from that.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears.
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I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to look at people who were on buses and be like, 'Whoa, man, some day.'
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I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
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The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.
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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.
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In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.
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We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.
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I heard that pictures don't change Just the people inside of 'em do Whoever told you that life would be easy I promise that person was lyin' to you
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I'm kind of an all-in person. If I'm going to direct I'm going to take the challenge on.
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The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to. It has a much more percussive rhythm to it.
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I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
