Mark McKinnon Quotes
I think Barack Obama is one of the most exciting politicians to come along in a long time.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.
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Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.
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It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!
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I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.
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I think Barack Obama is one of the most exciting politicians to come along in a long time.
