Mark de Jonge Quotes

Predictions are predictions. If you could predict the stock market, you would be super rich. But I have to race the race. It doesn't matter what I've done over the last few years. I have to race at the Olympics.

Mark de Jonge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: February 15, 1984

Topics

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I always had this curiosity about acting, but I was really into sports, and I never really thought about acting as a career. My senior year, I tried out for the high school production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and that was it for me.

John DeLuca

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See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.

Mel Torme

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To me, you make a tradeoff. It might be a little bit more expensive. But you're getting a better tasting, higher quality food that's going to be better for your health and better for the environment.

John Mackey

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Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'

John Maeda

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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.

Matt de la Pena

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I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.

Angelina Jolie

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When you take the individual out of the equation, then you're making programming based on some marketer's idea of what will sell, and not based on the idea of what an individual would like.

John Seabrook

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A woman who's light on her feet is always going to make the guy on her arm look better.

Tom Cavanagh

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I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.

Tom Drury

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An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign.

Russell Smith

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I'm sure Bonnie Blair and Dan Jansen think I'm garbage.

Mary Docter

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I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.

Michael Robotham

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