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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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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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I do not want to belittle or be indifferent to the insults to our prophet (pbuh). I denounce insulting our prophet and announce that my heart is filled with his love. Yet, I refuse that his position should be employed for ignoble political gains. However, I protest being used as a tool.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion.
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I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.
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You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.
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America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.
