David MacKenzie Quotes
Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.
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I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.
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I flipped through a book on harp seals in the late 1970s and saw images of them swimming in emerald green pools of water surrounded by huge sheets of ice. Right then I was hooked, and I knew this was a story I wanted to do.
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Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be.
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I went to Paris to learn and absorb some of the amazing ambience I was enamored with growing up in Kansas City. I didn't go there to start my own collection. But I never could get an internship, so finally, I was left with just doing my own show.
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The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.
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Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.
