Mark Pontius Quotes
When I was in Norway, we were there for two days, and I didn't sleep one hour there. I stayed up and watched the sunset, then watched it rise again. It was crazy, but I just loved it so much.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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We shred every day.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us.
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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 still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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It's really nice to be competitive in this tournament. The kids came out here with the attitude that they could win it. It's been a long time since they've had that.
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I was given an incredible gift growing up in the Chelsea, a space where it is completely fine to be yourself - you just had to figure out what that was. You didn't have to figure that out in the face of opposition at every turn.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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When I was in Norway, we were there for two days, and I didn't sleep one hour there. I stayed up and watched the sunset, then watched it rise again. It was crazy, but I just loved it so much.
