Mark Richardson Quotes
What's your hurry? There is nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here.
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It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.
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My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
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What's your hurry? There is nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here.
