Mark Thomas Quotes
We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
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I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.
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The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
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People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.
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Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in the books.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.
