Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.
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At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.
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We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
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Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
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I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
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Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.
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I'm not independently wealthy.
