Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
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I am not opposed to government efforts to stop terrorist plots. We are still seared by the memory of 9/11, and we should be.
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Between 1963 and 1975, I worked very little. The Beatles had come to New York and changed music - all the solo singers were out of work.
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When I really started just giving them the truth of who I was, that's when my fan base really started to grow.
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You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
