Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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People take things so seriously.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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War is the province of danger.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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If Quebecers want to keep the Canadian dollar, they'll keep it - and nobody can stop that, end of debate.
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I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.
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In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I think there's such disgust and frustration because of Trump that people see me as the vessel for that frustration. They see me as the person who can give voice to what they're feeling.
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The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts.
