Mark McKinnon Quotes
I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.
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My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
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I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.
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Holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.
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I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.
