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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I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
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The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
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I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.
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There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.
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Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.
