David MacKenzie Quotes
I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.
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We are a people whom Allah gave might and glory to through Islam, so we will never seek glory through anything else.
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I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.
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Let’s make a deal; if you promise not to get 'personal' with me, I will promise not to show you as the crude, fat and obnoxious slob which everyone knows you are. Sincerely, Donald J. Trump.
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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.
