David Mackay Quotes
I would say if you do have ambitions, don't just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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The hope of the social reformer is to open wide the gates of opportunity, so that every creature, from the least to the greatest, may make his life a moral adventure and a joy, and exhaust his possibilities in the thing he can best do.
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I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
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I would say if you do have ambitions, don't just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.
