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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I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.
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In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.
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Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party tomorrow night, one of those all-out birthday bashes that girls like. Want to go?" -"No. Sorry." "Since it's a catered thing, at a restaurant, I'll pick you up at- what did you say?" "I'm sorry. I can't do it."- "You're busy?" "I just can't do it," I said.
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According to the 2000 'Report of the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation,' the long-lasting effects of nuclear testing can be qualified in simple scientific terms: 'Radiation exposure can damage living cells, causing death in some of them and modifying others.'
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Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.
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Party switching has all the emotional edges and baggage of divorce.
