Mark Shriver Quotes
Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Love is a state of being.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Novels are longer than life.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
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I have soundtracks for a lot of stuff.
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
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Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
