Marc Forster Quotes
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
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I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.
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I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
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Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
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I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.
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I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
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I'll officer you.
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I give notice that Joe Public will be back on the scene in a big way. You won't have a two-team league no more.
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I shut my eyes, and I force myself to feel myself. You never really think of what it’s like to be in your body, but even with my eyes shut, I can feel the boundaries of my skin, real or not. Everything that’s me is contained inside this body, and I feel it all. The heartbeat I cannot control. The mind that may not be mine. I am here, in this moment, in this body. All that I am—maybe not all that I ever was, but all that I currently am—is right here.
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Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.
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I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.
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What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.
