Mark Spitz Quotes
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
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I have my cousin's jacket from when he was at war in Iraq. He never came home. It's incredible to have something that is so personal but that I also feel relatively comfortable wearing.
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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.
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'General Turquoise Blue?' asked Arthur. 'I didn't make Suzy a general, did I? I remember her talking about it, but I don't remember actually...' 'She probably just put on the uniform,' said Dr Scamandros. 'No one would question her.'
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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
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The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.
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Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
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I never thought I was particularly good looking. But when I see old photographs, I realise that I was. I do wish I had known that at the time because beauty is power. I didn't realise how lucky I was to be young, beautiful and in Hollywood. It didn't hit me. Every day I woke up, went to the film studio and just got on with it.
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Really! This might be Roumania!
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In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.
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Everyone loves to be loved.
Mark Spitz
