Mark Wright (Mark Charles Edward Wright) Quotes
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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I have a great life and I'm super active.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.
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Nicht vor Irrthum zu bewahren, ist die Pflicht des Menschen erziehers; sondern den Irrenden zu leiten, ja ihn seinen Irrthum aus vollen Bechern ausschlürfen zu lassen, das ist Weisheit der Lehrer. Wer seinen Irrthum nur kostet, hält lange damit Haus; er freuet sich dessen als eines seltenen Glücks; aber wer ihn ganz erschöpft, der muß ihn kennenlernen.
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Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.
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It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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Other people were fantastic at tapping into electricity. We'd be in a place with no electricity and they would make electricity happen.
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As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
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We take a lot of inspiration from punk rock and early rock 'n' roll from the '50s and early '60s.
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Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.
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I am not going to get carried away with one result.
