Don Marquis Quotes
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.
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We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.
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The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
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I'm standing on the bridge; I'm waiting in the dark. I thought that you'd be here by now. There's nothing but the rain, no footsteps on the ground. I'm listening, but there's no sound. Isn't anyone trying to find me? Won't somebody come take me home?
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The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.
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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
