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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The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.
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This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
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When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.
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Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.
