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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Up for grabs.
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Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that they see or hear something quite wonderful and then they are never altogether the same again.
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Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.
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I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
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All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
