Zupan Quotes

#1. The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder.

Rick Bass

#2. The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.'

Mark Zupan

#3. I'm not scared of getting hurt. I'm not scared of, pretty much, anything. If you live your life scared, what's the fun in living it? If you were scared of getting hit by a car, would you still cross the street?

Mark Zupan

#4. Everything is just so fraught with tendentious bullshit.

Vitomil Zupan

#5. I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

B.J. Novak

#6. I dream about running all the time.

Mark Zupan

#7. There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.

Mark Zupan

#8. Right now I'm sick of acting, so it's like, maybe I'll do writing for a bit. Then, when I'm tired of writing, I'll go work on my music. When I'm sick of music, I'll be like, I'm going to start performing comedy now. So it's good. It's not like I want to be famous or anything.

Charlyne Yi

#9. Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

Mark Zupan

#10. With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.

Mark Zupan

#11. I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.

Mark Zupan

#12. I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.

Mark Zupan

#13. For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not.

Mark Zupan

#14. I am lucky to live in Austin, so I can enjoy the live music.

Mark Zupan

#15. For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, 'Have fun.'

Mark Zupan

#16. Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up!

Mark Zupan

#17. I wouldn't mind being taller or stronger.

Mark Zupan

#18. A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

Mark Zupan

#19. Focus on what you want to do. Don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. Get your mind towards what you want to do and you'll achieve it. It makes it fun. You gotta take risks at times. Risks pay off.

Mark Zupan

#20. I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#21. Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

Mark Zupan

#22. Cats are useless.

Mark Zupan

#23. The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

Sam Altman

#24. Extraordinary, how single lives just fold into the whole mess, over and over again, all caught up in the greater swirl. Spinning round and round, and ever downward, it seems. Ever downward. Fools, all of us, to think we can swim clear of that current.

Steven Erikson

#25. I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it's so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.

Keeley Hawes

#26. Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

Mark Zupan

#27. I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.

Ryan Kwanten

#28. Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

Bill Dedman

#29. People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

Mark Zupan

#30. I am not Lyme disease, that's not who I am, I'm still a feminist artist, but this is a part of my story too, and I'm not going to keep it out to look cooler.

Kathleen Hanna

#31. Most people fear pain. I've learned that not feeling pain is a much more frightening proposition than feeling it. In fact, there are times when I'm playing when I actually enjoy it.

Mark Zupan

#32. I am a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech.

Mark Zupan

#33. So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

John B. S. Haldane

#34. No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

Thomas Jefferson

#35. When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

Van Morrison

#36. We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.

Mark Zupan

#37. If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.'

Mark Zupan

#38. What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time
just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.

Bob Weir

#39. Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

Charles Spurgeon

#40. Our tenderness, compassion and kindness go with sensitive generous heart that should not be abused by others.

Angelica Hopes

#41. Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.

Mark Zupan