Mark Romanek Quotes
I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.
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It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
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I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.
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I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.
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Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.
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I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.
