Mark McKinnon Quotes
I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.
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... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.
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I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.
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I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues.
