Mark Strong Quotes
My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything.
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I've got people around me that let me know when something really good happens.
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My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
