Mark McKinney Quotes
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.
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I will not go Prefer a feast of Friends To the Giant family
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I think it's something we are going to have to monitor over the next two weeks to two months.
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It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
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I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
