Mark McKinnon Quotes

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

Mark McKinnon

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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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• 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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• One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy.

  

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• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

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• Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Negativity