Mark Strong Quotes
My style icon has always been David Bowie. Just because of the variety of images and looks he created.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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The world is too violent right now.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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I was very excited to work with Nick Jarecki and, of course, to be in a film with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon!
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.
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If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
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Stacy had this more fluid style. You meet him, he's just such a nice guy. Tony's an awesome guy too, but back then, he was a real aggressive kid and they were in such a different place. Stacy was so sensitive and at the same time so competitive when it came to his skating.
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That's the beautiful thing about the saxophone. It can peacefully coexist with just about anything - whether it's hip-hop, rap, rock music, pop, R&B or jazz, there's a place for the saxophone in all of those styles.
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My style icon has always been David Bowie. Just because of the variety of images and looks he created.
