Mark McKinnon Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I would like to direct.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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All things considered, defending our borders by building a fence to keep out people is a necessity. There is no more humane alternative when it comes to protecting ourselves. We must act humanely, within the law, while honoring transparency, but with firm resolve.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries.
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Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.
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The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."
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Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.
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Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.
