Mark White Quotes
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My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.
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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
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I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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After becoming an actor, it's the privacy that I miss.
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When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
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When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.
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Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
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Who likes the little little duckies in the pond? I do, I do, I do, a-chicka quack quack.
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An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.
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This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.
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Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
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Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.
