Mark McKinnon Quotes
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I love bayou life.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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There's more to the sport than just fighting, and you either understand that, or you don't. And if you don't, then I promise you the guys that are worth money don't want to fight you, because you don't get it.
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The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that it's cheap. It pretty much enables anybody to record as long as you can deal with the sound.
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Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.
