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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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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.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
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I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
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Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.
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I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
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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.
