Mark Walport Quotes
We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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When you want the belt, you have to work for it.
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See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them.
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Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.
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Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.
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Hypocrisy is a universal phenomenon. It ends with death, but not before.
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We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
