Ian MacKaye Quotes
There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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I'm not into pancake things. I'm into eggs. Lots of eggs.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.
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I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.
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I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way,
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As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
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You guys ready to do this?
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I think the general public is going to be surprised by this. It's not out there yet.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know...
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Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.
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What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa.
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O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king Armchair warriors often fail And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers clean up all details Since daddy had to lie But I know a place where we can go And wash away this sin We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind Just lay your head back on the ground And let your hair spill all around me Offer up your best defence But this is the end This is the end of the innocence
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Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.
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I don't need Hollywood. With or without them, I'll be fine. But I'll admit it would be nice to have them on board.
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There's also a lot of skateboard stuff, because I was a skateboarder. Somewhere around here I have one of my original boards.
