Michael McKean Quotes
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
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A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
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Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
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I have a cellphone, but I have no Google, I have no gaggle.
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I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.
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My December is typically one big, sweaty 'wintry mix' blur, not a punch-laden, heartwarming mixer.
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We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
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You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.
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The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
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I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.
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Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?
