Mark Foster Quotes
I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.
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When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!
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The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.
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In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.
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I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.
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I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul.
