David MacKenzie Quotes
As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.
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Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.
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'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.
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I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
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I'm a sucker for a woman with beautiful eyes.
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Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
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We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.
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Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.
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I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!
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As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.
