David Macinnis Gill Quotes
A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.
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Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on with.
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When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.
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There's intense personal gratification in finding a mountain and becoming inspired by the aesthetics of an unclimbed line on that mountain, especially if that line has been tried by a lot of people who couldn't do it, and you get to set yourself up against the history of it.
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I love dialects and accents; they're something that really resonate with me and that I find fascinating.
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The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
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My dad was Superman to me, and in my mind he always will be.
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A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.
