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.
Patrick Ness -
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
Edmund Waller -
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess -
Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
R. J. Cutler -
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!
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
Vagit Alekperov
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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.
Damian Lewis -
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.
Ingrid Bergman -
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
Walter Salles -
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
Barry Diller -
I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
Karl Lagerfeld -
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.
Adam Grant
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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.
Dan Pink -
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.
Pankaj Mishra -
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.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
Balthazar Getty -
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.
Tavi Gevinson -
I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.
Hal Price
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I think I tried on the hardcore scene's outfits maybe once, and then I just figured I'd stick to Hawaiian shirts.
Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction -
I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.
Neil Marshall -
I have this prominent feature on my face - I don't know if you've noticed - but, well, they're my lips. They tend to walk into a room before I do because they're larger than average! So Chapstick's a big one for me.
Chloe Bridges -
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
Jeanette Winterson -
You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
George Horace Lorimer -
I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
Mark McKinney