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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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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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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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.
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If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
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Things can turn ugly so quickly in the music business, especially if you have an unexpected success.
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He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.
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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
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I don't like to make my life like a book.
