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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One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.
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I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.
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I don't do so much acting work now, as there aren't the parts except for 'Tango'. So if I didn't have the cabaret work, I don't know what I would be doing.
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I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.
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You're able to get into somebody's brain through song.
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Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut.
