Mark Shand Quotes
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People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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I don't watch a lot of television.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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I'm in good shape.
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.
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People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
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Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.
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For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.
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I believe Randy Orton is one of the greatest of all time.
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In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
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Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
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I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.
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Richard Burton is one of my heroes.
