Mark Foster Quotes
I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.
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'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.
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Losing feels worse than winning feels good.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
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At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.
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I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box.
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To the blind all things are sudden. (p. 41)
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The total loss of hearing was a process that lasted more than a decade, but it was sufficiently gradual for me to attend Sydney Boys' High School and to profit from the teaching there.
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I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.
