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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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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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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A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.
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That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.
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Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.
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I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
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The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.
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All advertising advertises advertising – no ad has its meaning alone. (p. 145)
