Mark Poster Quotes
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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We want our president to be a president and not threaten to shut down the government over a wall. To change the oppression that happens in this country, it has no place in the world, let alone America.
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Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back.
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I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
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Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
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Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.
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Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
