Merrill Markoe Quotes
whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.
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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
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whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.
