Mark McKinnon Quotes
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.
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Whate'erI may have been, or am, doth rest betweenHeaven and myself; I shall not choose a mortalTo be my mediator.
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We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.
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There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
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Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
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America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.
