Marshall McLuhan Quotes
When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
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Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
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I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.
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When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.
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Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through faith to go on in the face of questions to which we find no answer in our present status.
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
