Mac Anderson Quotes
By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways...our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself...'Are there things I'd like to change?'
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.
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When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
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I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a bus. More often than not, it's a reaction to how you feel about something, and if you're sitting down and concentrating on, 'I must write something,' then you can't have a truthful reaction.
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways...our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself...'Are there things I'd like to change?'
