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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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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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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We have a lot of entitlement programs in this country, and we've seen how much they cost us on the back end when people don't have the education they need. I say let's make this investment on the front end. I think it'll be better for the individual and better for our state in the long term.
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To me, the most important thing is to wear something that I love and feel comfortable in, and Christmas is a great opportunity to get one of my old favourites out.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
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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.
