Peter MacKay Quotes
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.
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A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
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Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again.
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With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.
