Mark McKinney Quotes
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.
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Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
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There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
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I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
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I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.
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I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.
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We all stand on the dart board and very few of us catch the darts. Do not think it is unfair. It is fair but you are unlucky.
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Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht.
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Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
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Every time you talk to this person, you lie.
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If I had done a Disney movie nobody would care. They would not care. You may say oh, I grew up and I loved that movie, that was really super, but you wouldn’t care. People really will stop and talk to me about deeper issues, which I am excited to participate in.
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Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
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It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.
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I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
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The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.
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Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.
