Mark White Quotes
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.
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Great books are rare.
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A triathlon is on my bucket list. I started training a long time ago, and my life took a different turn: Things happen; work happens. I will definitely accomplish that at some point!
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Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.
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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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Sometimes, we nerds of technology sort of don't think that the rules necessarily apply to us in the same way, but I think when you produce products that hundreds of millions of people, if not billions of people, are using, we have the same responsibilities as any other person representing the Fourth Estate.
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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
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To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.
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If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.
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If character is what you do when no one is watching, then sportsmanship is that conduct with everybody watching.
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I was exposed to jazz early on.
