Mark Walport Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
-
I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
-
But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
-
I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.
-
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
-
I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
-
My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
-
I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
-
I've done a lot of things that I regret.
-
The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
-
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
-
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
-
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
-
Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.
-
I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.
-
I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
-
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
-
You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
-
When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
-
Whenever I meet Ukridge’s Aunt Julia I have the same curious illusion of having just committed some particularly unsavoury crime and-what is more-of having done it with swollen hands, enlarged feet, and trousers bagging at the knee on a morning when I had omitted to shave.
-
Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.
-
My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
-
Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal
-
No one likes doing primate experiments, but some research can only be done on monkeys.