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Mark Leyner Quotes

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

Mark Leyner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1956

Topics

Work Father Son Myself Culture Own

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

Jimmy Iovine

Music Sound Digital Artists Damaging

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

Melissa Leo

Character Someone Emotions Play Own

Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Mind Mom She Academic Riches Were

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

Max Weber

Politics Stupid World View Point

Democrats, independents, Republicans, all of us Americans who love our country. What a wonderful time to come together and really just count our blessings. And to remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for us and for this country and all those freedoms we love.

Robert Hurt

Love Time Together Sacrifice Country

One of the weird things about being a designer is guessing what the world will want about a year in advance of when they will want it. It becomes almost a psychological test in a way - how do I feel now and how do I want to feel then.

Michael Bastian

World Weird Feel Year Want Test

You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else.

St. Lucia

Selfish You Working Somebody Percent

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Toni Morrison

Art Black Tolerance Literature Form

I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen.

Tom Latham

Problems Care Political Labor Meet

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Russell Baker

Car Efficiency Down Say Need Most

I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.

Mat Kearney

Learning Song Guitar Loved Play Sit

I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund.

Louise Woodward

Trust Think Questions I Can Answer