Michael McKean Quotes
When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.
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Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.
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The real is always way ahead of what we can imagine.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
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[On her collaboration with Adolph Green:] We stare at each other. We meet, whether or not we have a project, just to keep up a continuity of working. There are long periods when nothing happens, and it's just boring and disheartening. But we have a theory that nothing's wasted, even those long days of staring at one another. You sort of have to believe that, don't you? That you had to go through all that to get to the day when something did happen.
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When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.
