Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

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• The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Business
  • Lawyer
  • Camera

• I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Remember
  • Myself
  • Sunset

• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Live
  • Experience

• The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Time
  • Process
  • Healing

• You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Know

• What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Rest
  • Look

• I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.

  

  Yuna
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Inspiration

• If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Change
  • Said

• Saying you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's awesome, and it's out of your control, and it's not a career path.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Up
  • Career
  • Control

• When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Men
  • Help

• There are downsides to a lot of things. There are downsides to flying - people die every now and then. Do you want to stop all air flights? There are downsides to pharma; sometimes they're misused. Do you want to stop using pills?

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Stop
  • Die

• As a proud spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris, I have communicated the 'Because You're Worth It' message many times, and know firsthand how empowering it is to say and how empowering it feels.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Proud
  • Paris
  • Empowering

• I would always consider going back to 'Coronation Street.'

  

  Katherine Kelly

• My whole act is off the top of my head.

  

  Don Rickles

• The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Character

• I am NOT a belly dancer. I have never been one, and never will be. What I do is not what Hollywood vulgarly calls 'belly dance', but it's art. I have traveled the world to prove that my dance is not a dance of the belly but a refined, artistic dance full of tradition, of dreaming and beauty. Oriental dance is primarily an expressive dance; in that resides the beauty.

  

  Nadia Gamel
  • Dream
  • Hollywood
  • Traveled

• If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Taken
  • Needs
  • Consciousness