Patrick Marber Quotes
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.'
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When I was grounded, I wouldn't be allowed to go on set. That's how much I loved it.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
