Marc Newson Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?
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I could listen to Lorne Michaels tell stories for a hundred years.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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I don't like to make my life like a book.
