Jan Mark Quotes

When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.

Jan Mark

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 22, 1943 - January 16, 2006

Topics

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I like the fact George R. R. Martin took Shakespeare's political plays as material, but he also took on all sorts of other sensational stories and mingled them in together.

Melvyn Bragg

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It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.

Michael Bay

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I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

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Children need to move to develop their brain; it's a natural urge. That's why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can't help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that's uniquely their own.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

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Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

Jon Meacham

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Playboy's all about why it's worth working so hard.

Christie Hefner

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I hope to be acting until I am 90.

Clive Standen

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I'm not an emotional fighter.

Chuck Liddell

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I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Nigella Lawson

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Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

Martha Reeves

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I am a country boy and proud of it.

Lionel Richie

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So much has changed since the '70s and '80s when it comes to acting and being in the public eye. We'd go out to a restaurant, and there would be five or six people. Now there's a lot more, plus social media, and this desire to bring other people down.

Lily Collins

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