Mark Zupan Quotes
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
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The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.
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I do believe in standing for something more than just a product.
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
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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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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.
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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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That was the political reality of 1987: Saxophones made you cool. That's real! That really happened in our society!
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When the F-16 first was rolled out, there were many problems in the development. There were cost issues, and it ended up being one of the best planes the military has ever seen and kept this country protected and kept many jobs in the North Texas area.
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All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids were listening to in school. I got into punk rock and new wave, then dub and hip-hop.
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I grew up in a country where I remember my parents not being able to have a conversation on the phone. The walls had ears, and you couldn't speak freely.
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Cats are useless.
