Mark McKinney Quotes

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

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• I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Man

• As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • First
  • Learned
  • Theme

• When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Business
  • Young
  • Show

• Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Religion
  • Commit
  • Muslims

• It's great fun to play with a really good band.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Fun

• I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Write
  • Had
  • Them

• Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Human

• There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Works
  • Divine
  • Slaves

• What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Today
  • Want
  • Period

• I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Singing
  • Guitar
  • Kitchen

• 'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Funny

• We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Tradition
  • Theater
  • Truthful

• The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

  

  F. L. Lucas
  • Hope
  • Future
  • See

• In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Men
  • Art
  • Science

• Who consciously throws himself into the water or onto the knife?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Water

• Laughing at what you didn't have and never would was better than letting it depress you.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Laughing
  • Depressed

• Dammit, Michael, get out of my room, you pervert!” Could you even be a pervert if you were dead? She supposed you could, if you had a working body half the time. “I swear, I’m going to start taking my clothes off!” The cold spot stayed resolutely put until she got the hem of her T-shirt all the way up to her bra line, and then faded away. “Chicken,” she said, and paced the room, back and forth.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

  

  Mark McKinney
  • Cold