Ian MacKaye Quotes
Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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I'm a real romantic.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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I just really try to stay focused on what the material is wanting to do. My basic assumption is that no one will ever listen to it anyway. It's fidelity to the material. That's my contract: It's me and the material. And if it connects with other people, I'm thrilled.
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I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.
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If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
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You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.
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All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
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Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].
