Mark Foster Quotes
There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world
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We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.
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Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.
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To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.
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There's a lot of bands that blow up quickly, but then they die quickly. Longevity is the healthy thing; that's the pursuit.
