Mark Pontius Quotes
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
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With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
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I was a delivery boy at one point.
