Bret McKenzie Quotes
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I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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If you think that your child is going to be really sensitive to the fact that they might not win - which they probably won't - you shouldn't do it because it's not healthy if they get the feeling that they're not good enough or they're not worthy.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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I just wanna hear my own voice.
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Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
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This movie is about the fact that personal repression gives rise to larger political oppression.… That when we're afraid of certain things in ourselves or we're afraid of change, we project those fears on to other things, and a lot of very ugly social situations can develop.
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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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I wouldn't want anyone to think that work is the major thing in my life.
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I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and also, by attending Burning Man for several years, I was incredibly stimulated by the art there. I increasingly wanted to be a part of it, and focused on what I wanted to say as an artist.
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At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all.
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What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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It's easy to struggle in New York. I think New York is a bit expensive.
