Mark McKinnon Quotes
Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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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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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.
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There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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after one of his dogs urinated in the bedroom Who pissed!!? Who pissed on my fucking carpet!?! That bastard fucking dog man. I'm going to throw you in the pool! Get the fuck out of my house! Why do they do it Sharon? Whats the deal man? It's a fucking terrorist man! It's fucking part of Bin Laden's gang! Fucking Ali Baba used to go work on this rug.
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I knew I was a good singer - I've been singing my whole life, so I was comfortable enough with that - I felt like I could compensate with not being great on guitar.
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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
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I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
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Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.
