Mark McKinney Quotes
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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.
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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.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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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.
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Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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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.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.
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The feeling of exultant joy that there is anyone like that in the world. I shall never see him again, and he did not notice me, or would ever, but there is such a person alive, there is such a life, and I am here on this earth, in this age, to know it!
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When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.
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It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.
