Marshall McLuhan Quotes
Effects are perceived, whereas causes are conceived. Effects always preceed causes in the actual developmental order. (p. 303)
Quotes to Explore
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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My job is to work hard and be honest with my character, and that's in my control. I can only try to give my best performance.
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I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
