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 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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Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.
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But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.
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I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
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In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.
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A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
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I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.
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Richard Burton is one of my heroes.
