Mark Parker Quotes
At Penn State, I ran distance and cross country as a walk-on. I wound up running a lot of marathons, 30-plus. I was okay. I won one in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I think it was around 2:30. I could crank those out all day.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
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I know I'm in England because this morning, my stomach got up two hours before I did and had a cup of tea! I've had so much tea, I slosh when I walk! You have to drink tea - I've tasted the coffee!
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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At Penn State, I ran distance and cross country as a walk-on. I wound up running a lot of marathons, 30-plus. I was okay. I won one in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. I think it was around 2:30. I could crank those out all day.
