Mark Rylance Quotes
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
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Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
