Mark McKinnon Quotes
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.Mark McKinnon
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
Washed Out -
I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
J. D. Souther -
The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
Action Bronson -
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
Edmund White
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
Patrick Wilson -
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
Natasha Leggero -
There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
Yami Gautam -
The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. Howe -
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
Sam Shepard
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
Ad Reinhardt -
There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
Idina Menzel -
Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
Gavin Andresen -
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
Ted Kotcheff -
I wanted passionately to be a priest.
A. N. Wilson -
I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
Calvin Johnson
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Contracting a fatal disease.
John McCain -
What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.
Elvis Mitchell -
Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.
Kurt Loder -
For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
Padmasree Warrior -
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.
Mark McKinnon