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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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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Mostly I play with records. I play with my friend Bill Evans.
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I'm loving every second working with the brilliant Kayvan Novak; it's a hoot from dawn to dusk!
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My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.
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I didn't mean for you to take that the wrong way," He said abruptly. Mae stared at him in amazement. So, for that matter, did Jamie. "What?" "Demons don't touch anyone without a reason," Nick went on, his eyes shut again. "You can imagine what kind of reasons we usually have. I don't like--not anyone--I didn't mean anything by it." "Oh," said Jamie. "Oh, that's okay! That's fine. I understand. I am filled to the brim with understanding and, and acceptance! I'm very Zen like that.
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The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
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I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.
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I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.
