Mark Foster Quotes

I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.

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• When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

  

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• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

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• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

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• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

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• It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.

  

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• Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

  

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• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

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• I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

  

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• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

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• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  

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• You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

  

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• It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.

  

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• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  

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• I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.

  

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• At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.

  

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• I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
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