David MacKenzie Quotes
I have a memory of this experience when I was young, watching 'Stop Making Sense,' the Talking Heads concert movie, which is one of the best concert movies ever, and I saw it in a full house in New Zealand, and everyone was cheering between songs, and you really felt like you were part of the audience at the gig.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.
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I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer.
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Going to church and stuff was just something I did with my mom.
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I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.
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I have a memory of this experience when I was young, watching 'Stop Making Sense,' the Talking Heads concert movie, which is one of the best concert movies ever, and I saw it in a full house in New Zealand, and everyone was cheering between songs, and you really felt like you were part of the audience at the gig.
