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“I'm not doing a Mulder, there was no character reference-point. I think Mark Buchman shot it very David Fincher, but we did not know what the [X-Files] show was going to be.”

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Author:David Giuntoli

“I cut London Boulevard pretty aggressively, but I liked the transitions and the elliptical feel that I got. It's not an exceptionally easy film to follow. You have to know that the paparazzo looks like Mark David Chapman. He hasn't got an expositional sign on him.”

Knows Feels Looks Film Easy Cutting Mark London Transition Boulevard

Author:William Monahan

“There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I admire as combat leaders and others I admire because they're great fun to write about.”

World Writing War Names Fun Numbers Leader Mark Admire War Of The Worlds Combat Historian World War Ii World War I Antony

Author:Rick Atkinson

“MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.”

World School Environment Periods Essentials Function Mark Twenties Realization Ritual Collapse Inability Breakdown Usage Pharmaceutical

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!”

Reason Seems Sides Ignorance Return Kings Europe Mark Come Up Shoulders Barriers Priests Southern Continents Globes Destined Barbarism Colossus

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

“It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.”

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Book:The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“I work out at Will Space four times a week. It's a private training gym. It's owned by my trainer, Will Torres. I just came from there, actually. I turned Mark Consuelos onto Will, so he goes there too. Today we boxed. It's every kind of cross-training you can do.”

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Author:Andy Cohen

“We're strong; We're very dedicated to what we do; We believe in ourselves; We go for what we want in life; We've made a mark in this world for ourselves.”

World Want Believe Made Strong This World Mark Dedicated

Author:Sable

“I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I'm Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a baaaad man, you heard me I'm a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a baaad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain't gotta mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.”

Men World Years Wanted Faces Fall Four Heard Bears Kings Six Mark Rounds Ugly Eight Survived

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.”

Action Mark Superiors Executives Orientation

Author:Brian Tracy

“There is no second baseman in the game who can turn the double play better [than Mark Lemke]. Why are people always looking for offense at that position? What's more important is getting outs, and turning the double is a huge factor in getting outs.”

People Important Play Turns Games Position Huge Mark Factors Offense

Author:Tom Glavine

“You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.”

Ifs Knows Looks Film Actors Acting One Thing Shots Mark Right Place Film Acting

Author:Michael Caine

“By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.”

Firsts Film Lines Pay Attention Majors Mark Studios Pay Attention Foxes

Author:Shirley Temple

“The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.”

Ifs Should Kind Doe Running Reading Hell Mark Theater Entertainment Candle Documents Stains Dining Menus Interactive Alluring

Author:Joe Bastianich

“There is now a $5 million dollar bounty on Osama bin Laden. Which marks the first time in history there has ever been a bounty on a guy's head who wears Bounty on his head.”

Firsts Guy Millions First Time Mark Dollars Million Dollars Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Bounty

Author:Jay Leno

“The president is not doing well with African Americans. His popularity rating - his approval rating - with blacks: two percent. Two percent. That is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.”

Wells Two President Percent Mark Cells African American Approval Popularity Rating Approval Rating Anemia Sickle Cell

Author:Bill Maher

“The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.”

Want Persons Perfect Mark Knives Plastic Frustrated

Author:Demetri Martin

“When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.”

Said Home Running Kids Mother Respect Mark Running Away No Respect Away From Home

Book:It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs

“Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.”

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Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs, it was not at all in order to mark a sort of blank, absence, or disappearance of the image; it was because the code that dominates at once the production of these images, the framing they are made to undergo, the social implications (showing the writer's head framed in front his bookshelves, the whole scenario) seemed to me to be, first of all, terribly boring, but also contrary to what I am trying to write and to work on.”

“As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“[Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.”

People Eye Age Faces Left Growth Can Do Mouths Skins Madness Mark Cameras Disappointment Ugly Flesh Horrible Necks Sickness Anxious Fearful Alcoholism Wrinkles Horrible Things Irreversible

Author:Janet Malcolm

“When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the window for an hour without seeing the star, questioned not Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray), but his own eyesight.”

Young House Stars Hours Seeing Window Mark Shooting Rays Bob Hung Listeners Uncles Eyesight Shooting Star

Book:The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made

Source: The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made

“Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year. I'm sorry if you don't recognize the name. A magazine is something people used to read.”

People Ifs Years Persons Used Names Mark Sorry Magazines I'm Sorry Zuckerberg

Author:Craig Ferguson

“You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.”

Knows Stills I Can Different Play Sound Written Share Mark Each Day Composer

Author:Igor Levit

“Mark [Duplass] is the same person that I met on day one. He's a very smart, savvy, creative guy. If you ever want a champion on your side, it's Mark.”

Ifs Want Persons Guy Sides Creative Mets Smart Mark Champion Your Side Very Smart Savvy

Author:Jackie Schaffer

“I remember being in the audition with Mark [Duplass] and I remember not being able to dominate him. He's so smart and centered and grounded. I can't do what I'd normally do to someone in this situation. I can't get the upper hand in the scene. I was really impressed and excited about the possibility to work with him.”

I Can Hands Able Remember Situation Possibility Scene Smart Mark Excited Impressed Auditions Grounded Upper Hand

Author:Jackie Schaffer

“Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.”

Years Sometimes Reading Imagine Plans Honor Findings Mark Boundaries Monument Surveyors

Author:Mark Mason

“It's so not sexy and intimate. There are 40 people in the room. There's a guy with his belly hanging out, with a boom in your face. It's really very technical. I think doing a love scene is tougher than doing a fight scene. It's so staged and you can't put light on her face and you have to hit the mark.”

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Author:Boris Kodjoe

“I think each human being wants to make their mark on the world in whatever way they can, and maybe everyone has a slight egomaniac inside of them.”

Thinking World Way Want Humans Human Beings Mark Egomaniacs

Author:Marina and the Diamonds

“As I say, you get labeled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.”

Way Winning Mark England

Author:Jamie Redknapp

“I bet when all the punctuation marks have a party, they quietly look at exclamation point's wife and think, that poor woman.”

Thinking Looks Poor Party Wife Mark Punctuation Exclamation Exclamation Points Punctuation Marks

Author:Dana Gould

“I gotta lose weight. I got stretch marks on my stomach and I never had a baby. So now when I take off my shirt in front of women, I tell them I was attacked by a mountain lion.”

Loses Fronts Baby Mountain Weight Mark Shirts Stomach Lions Lose Weight Stretch Marks

Author:Felipe Esparza

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.”

Truth Impossible Integrity Mark Lifetime Obligation Being True Fake Simple Life Fake People Reluctant Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Messiah

Book:Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up. Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business had failed to catch fire.”

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Author:Naveen Jain

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.”

World Believe Ends Belief Ignorance Masters Tragedy Mark Depth Injustice Butterfly End Of The World Reluctant Messiah Caterpillars Illusions Of Life

Author:Richard Bach

“Fortunately, taking a picture leaves no mark.”

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Author:Edward S. Curtis

“Unlike the marks of a painting, the photo seems to organize its 'opinions' in relation to the world; even when the photographs have clearly been manipulated, the 'opinions' seem to have all the more force, with the suggested 'participation of the world' articulating that 'opinion' as a difference.”

World Seems Force Differences Opinion Painting Mark Relation Photograph Organize Participation Articulating

Author:Joseph Kosuth

“I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.”

Thinking Humans Certain Left Rooms Taken Wall Shadow Empty Mark Photograph Disappear Absence Etc Empty Rooms

Author:Mona Kuhn

“I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.”

Humans Earth Human Beings Environment Mark Leaving Surface Obsession Comment Scar Metaphysical

Book:Details of the world

Source: Details of the world

“... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.”

Made Self Film Photography Mark Cameras Photograph Video Makers Clicks Shutters

Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau

“You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.”

Should Dream Imagination Impossible Creation Pure Conscious Should Have Mark Silly Perceive Insanity Makers Freak

Book:The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

Source: The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories

“On one hand, liberals are enraged at the heinousness of Mark Sanford - whom they didn't vote for - for not resigning and, on the other, they're enraged at Palin - whom they also didn't vote for - for resigning.”

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Author:Ann Coulter

“I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.”

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Book:Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780-81-82

Source: Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780-81-82

“Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.”

Asks Mark Stronger Reputation Excellent Insensible

Author:Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

“A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.”

Should Ends Play Action Process Results Careers Player Football Fine Decided Mark End Results Football Match

Author:Michel Patini

“McQueen was daring, original, exciting. He shook up the establishment with his creativity and understood what it takes to be a great British ambassador for fashion. I admired him very much. He was a fashion revolutionary that, like me, made the journey from [Central] Saint Martins to Paris where he put his own unique mark on the industry. He will not be forgotten.”

Made Creativity Journey Fashion Industry Unique Understood Exciting Mark Originals Forgotten Saint British Like Me Revolutionary Paris Establishment Daring Ambassadors Mcqueen

Author:John Galliano

“We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss.”

“It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.”

Whole Steps Higher Mark Kicks Risen Removal Staircases

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.”

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Author:Jools Holland

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