Mark Foster Quotes
When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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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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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
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Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the time. And also as a musician, if you do make money, it means you had to bite and scratch and kick the whole way to not get ripped off, because at every corner, there's somebody there waiting to trip you up and take a bigger chunk.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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When I started really playing music, I pretty much quit sports. I quit everything.
