Michael McKean Quotes
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
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Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame,Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.Their level life is but a mouldering fire,Unquenched by want, unfanned by strong desire.
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When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.
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After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of 'Star Spangled Banner' and 'Purple Haze.' My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, 'I'm going to get a guitar.'
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.
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Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
