Mark Shields Quotes
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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When you see the industry's fickleness so early on, you realise that you are only as good as your last release. It is all about your work. And that has set the way I look at my profession and what I do in my career.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth
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In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.
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The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
