Mark McKinnon Quotes
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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I'm not a negative person.
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Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
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My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
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My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
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My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
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I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.
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To do stories that I love, scripts that I love, and work with people who are passionate about them and passionate about projects - whether that's on stage or television or film, that's the kind of environment I want to work in.
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When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.
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It was always the intent, in a larger arc, to split the Avengers up before the greatest threat that they've ever seen.
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I grew up in Buffalo, New York, and was a big Bills fan.
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I think, when I meet a person, in general, it's not my habit to conclude anything about people. Not completely. Even people you know well constantly remain open.
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When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.
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You don't say no to a Shankar film.
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I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.
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When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.
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I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
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What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn't done. So he is a good businessman.
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There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.
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I always revisit duality because I think it's a conflict we all have. I think we all leave our house and go to work, and we put on the cape and become superheroes. That's what we do. It's how we move through life and handle negativity: you do everything you can to stay away from it.
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Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.
