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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Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.
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If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.
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Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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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.
