Mark Parker Quotes
It's impossible to leave our emotions and experiences outside the work place - they inform us and make us who we are.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
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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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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, 'Oh you're not that shy...' I never said I was! I see where they're coming from because my biggest single was about being shy at a party - I get it. But it's not 100% accurate.
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Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.
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It's impossible to leave our emotions and experiences outside the work place - they inform us and make us who we are.
