David J. C. MacKay Quotes
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
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I think it's important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over.
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This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.
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I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know.
