Marshall McLuhan Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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Kate Moss has great style.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
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People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.
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Every frame of every film is from a particular time. So, if you make a film in 2017, the times can't not have a bearing.
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I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been. I remember fragments of my dream, and I try to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it.
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A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.
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It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.
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Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.
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Languages are environments to which the child related synesthetically. (p. 166)
