David Markson Quotes

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

David Markson

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• I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • America
  • Know

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Food

• I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Kind
  • Hand
  • Crazy

• I originally just wanted to be an artist.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Artist
  • Wanted
  • Just

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Feeling
  • Progress
  • Values

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Way
  • Smart
  • Safe

• The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Important
  • Athlete

• Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Service
  • Creating
  • Twitter

• But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Style

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• I love Costco.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Costco

• I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Writing
  • Past

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Just
  • Global
  • Sit

• I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Singing
  • Makeup
  • Costume

• I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Desire
  • Look
  • Mystery

• I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Genetics

• Even if the Tonys aren't as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Exciting
  • Ceremony
  • Oscars

• I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my parents were like, 'Wow! You have a really great voice!'

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • People
  • Hospitals
  • Injured

• Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

  

  David Markson
  • Person
  • Solitude
  • Discover