Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
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If we're talking about guys who set the tone, you've got to go way back. But if we're talking about guys who made it possible for guys like A.J. Styles, Shawn Michaels kind of opened that door, along with Daniel Bryan.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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p. 36
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The time of our production had absolutely nothing to do with politics or tactics.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.
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All advertising advertises advertising – no ad has its meaning alone. (p. 145)
