Markus Zusak Quotes
I like to work in the morning, usually from 7-12, and still always hope to do more later. At the end of a book, I just work most of the time, but in general, I like to be working nice and early.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.
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Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?
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Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.
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If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.
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I'd like to do more TV stuff that is live action, but I am so totally happy doing as much voice work as I possibly can. Because it really is the best work. It's so amazing. You just show up. You don't have to look good. You don't even have to brush your hair. You work for a couple of hours, and you go home.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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I enjoy reading tips about how to be more organized, and I rarely implement them.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I like to work in the morning, usually from 7-12, and still always hope to do more later. At the end of a book, I just work most of the time, but in general, I like to be working nice and early.
