Mark Strong Quotes
It's important to me that I don't spend too much time away from the family. I try to pick jobs that will keep me as close to home as possible or, if I have to go far away, for as little time as possible.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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With the TV shows, you get eight zillion people watching you. I was really surprised at the way everything went. I knew television was powerful, but that was just... wow.
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I think I get credit for my timing because most of the time, I really have no idea where I'm going with it.
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I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.
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I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.
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The best things happen in the dark.
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It's important to me that I don't spend too much time away from the family. I try to pick jobs that will keep me as close to home as possible or, if I have to go far away, for as little time as possible.
