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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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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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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To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.
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Of course I've felt racism.
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Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.
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I don't feel much pressure at all. I have great family support, and they take a lot of pressure off me. They help to control media and public interest.
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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.
