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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Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
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Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Heaven began to run at the edges.
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Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.
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Richard Burton is one of my heroes.
