Marshall McLuhan Quotes
The mask, like the side-show freak, is mainly participatory rather than pictorial in its sensory appeal. (p. 352)
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.
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Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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I literally live on American Airlines' 737 commercial airplane.
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I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.
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I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business.
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You want something real bad? Go after it with ferocity like if your life depended on it and never ever surrender. Only a question of time.
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I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.
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The mask, like the side-show freak, is mainly participatory rather than pictorial in its sensory appeal. (p. 352)
