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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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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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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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.
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There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music.
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I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.
