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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If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.
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Being a father is a surprise for me every day.
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The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life.
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Be honest about how you approach failure. Don't just be critical of yourself, because that can be self-serving. Approach it honestly, assess your performance, and assess the areas where you have fallen short. Correct them and move on. Don't dwell on it. Don't hold on to it.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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Cats are useless.
