Mark McKinney Quotes
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
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Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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Teaching is in my blood.
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I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.
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I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.
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The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
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I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
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So that's little Scorpious. Make sure you beat him in every test, Rosie. Thank god you've inherited your mother's brains.
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Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut.
