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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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until traditional education makes them afraid of making mistakes. The long-term value of making for kids is in learning to become an active participant in the world around them rather than a consumer of prepackaged products and solutions.
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It's disingenuous to... pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters.
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Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
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Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.
