Marshall McLuhan Quotes
All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation.
Quotes to Explore
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.
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There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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All words at every level of prose and poetry and all devices of language and speech derive their meaning from figure / ground relation.
