Mark Shields Quotes
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
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Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
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I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
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I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.
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Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.
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It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
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The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
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I always knew I was different than everyone else, and smarter.
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.
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I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
