Mark Strong Quotes
When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.
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Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
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In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
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At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.
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I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
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I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
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I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.
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People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.
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Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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We should go and ask the princess for help. She seems very nice, and she’s much too beautiful to be unkind.
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'NOTA', for his film Lucy, as quoted in 'Luc Besson's Statement Of Intent For 'Lucy' Compares The Film To '2001,' 'Inception' & 'Leon The Professional'' by Kevin Jagernauth, in Indiewire (28 July 2014)
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I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free...I haven't fought the destructive forces of socialism for more than twenty years in order to stop now, when the critical phase of the struggle is upon us.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.
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Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
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What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.
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The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.
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We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.
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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
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I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.
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When you're making a psychological thriller, what you need to do is have an audience on shifting sand so they're never quite sure where they are.
