David MacKenzie Quotes
As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.David MacKenzie
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
A. J. Jacobs -
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
Irwin Thomas -
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
O. J. Simpson -
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
Karl Kraus -
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
Salman Rushdie -
All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
Hamza Yusuf
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
Zainab Salbi -
I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
Randy Weber -
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson -
Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
Usher -
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
Natalie Imbruglia
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
Zoe Saldana -
If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
Yossi Sarid -
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
Irina Shayk -
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass -
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
Tatyana Ali
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty -
I don't like saying goodbye to people. I find it much easier to forgive people than to say goodbye to them, I always have, in any facet of my life. It's hard sometimes to forgive people, but I find it harder to say goodbye if you love them.
Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene -
I would say my voice is actor-neutral.
Kenneth Branagh -
Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
John Calvin -
I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
L. E. Modesitt -
As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.
David MacKenzie