Mark Sheppard Quotes

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

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• Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Important
  • Worry

• I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Good
  • Women
  • Comedies

• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • People
  • Failure
  • Plant

• Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Stand

• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Day

• What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Equal

• Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Why
  • America

• Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Problem
  • Risk
  • Financial

• I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Nice
  • Film
  • Tears

• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Business
  • American

• And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Responsibility
  • Problems

• At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • School
  • Kids
  • American

• I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Style
  • Successful

• Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sense
  • Proportion
  • Realised

• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

  

  David Mamet
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• Take responsibility and go to work so God has something to help us with.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Work
  • God
  • Help

• I'm a passionate believer in revision, and a lot of my writing gets done during revision process. It isn't just tweaking: I tend to break it apart and remake it every time I do a new draft.

  

  John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Done

• Don Conroy was larger than life and there was never a room he entered that he left without making his mark. At some point in his life, he passed from being merely memorably to being legendary.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life

• I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

  

  Mark Sheppard
  • Work