Mark Rydell Quotes
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.
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Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.
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It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.
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Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
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The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and I believe that it will be a key to creating innovative economies in the twenty-first century.
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Barzai knew so much of the gods that he could tell of their comings and goings, and guessed so many of their secrets that he was deemed half a god himself.
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.
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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
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When the baptism of the penguins was known in Paradise, it caused neither joy nor sorrow, but an extreme surprise. The Lord himself was embarrassed. He gathered an assembly of clerics and doctors, and asked them whether they regarded the baptism as valid.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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The good thing about 'SNL' is that it's the same people every week that you're working with, and we've all become so close and tight because we've worked together so long and so closely together.
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In the evening, when everything is tired and quiet, I sit with Walt Whitman by the rose beds and listen to what that lonely and beautiful spirit has to tell me of night, sleep, death, and the stars. This dusky, silent hour is his; and this is the time when I can best hear the beatings of that most tender and generous heart.
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I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.
