Mark Walport Quotes
Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
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Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
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I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.
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If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.
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Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
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With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there.
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Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.
