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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And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.
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My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.
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I started life with two great advantages: no money, and good parents.
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I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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Cats are useless.
