Mark Steyn Quotes
...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.
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The U.S. will invite El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord who just escaped prison, to become a U.S. citizen because our 'leaders' can't say no!
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We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
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I'm a laid-back guy. I like being outdoors. I enjoy hanging out.
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Everyone should take their hats off to Neil Armstrong. He is a humble guy who doesn't wave his own flag.
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...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.
