Mark Sheppard Quotes
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John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.
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Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.
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Tell me something I can dance to.
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The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.
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In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.
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When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.
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I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.
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The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.
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The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.
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Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.
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If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.
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Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.
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We are all riding on the same bus.
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It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.
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