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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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 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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In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.
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I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in which we grew up was somehow special, but I really do believe that there were two golden eras in music: The Forties and Fifties of big band, jazz and swing, and the Sixties and Seventies of rock. To me, they're really unparalleled.
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In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.
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The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.
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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.
