Mark Foster Quotes
One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.
 
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	I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.   
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	Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.   
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	I studied Morse code.   
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	We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.   
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	More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.   
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	I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.   
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	My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.   
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	All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.   
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	I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.   
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	It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.   
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	I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.   
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	You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.   
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	The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media. Garry Kasparov
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	If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.   
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	I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.   
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	I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.   
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	You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.   
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	I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.   
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	We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.   
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	I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.   
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	Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?   
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	On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.   
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	Acting is a different beast on screen. I'm excited to explore that. But, of course, it's an honor to be part of the Broadway community. It's a dream just to be here.   
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	One of the things with the second record, a word I held close to my chest was 'brave.' To take chances to go outside the box and explore. To continue to toss off any expectation that our fans or anyone else might have of us, to just tap into who I am as a writer and artist and really just operate within that freedom of creation.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					