Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

Terence McKenna

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• Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• 'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Character
  • Success

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Good
  • Kids

• Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Something
  • Feminist
  • Jewish

• Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• For an actor to have the chance to go and play something that's far away from yourself, physically and also in terms of personality, character, is so much fun.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Chance

• All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • God
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Bad
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity- * * * * * *That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears?

  

  Vanity
  • World

• The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up in being a black actor; I'm just an actor who is a black woman. It's not about forgetting that you're black, but you don't need to be hammered over the head, either; it just is what it is.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Black

• In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.

  

  Dave Morris
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• For me, nothing is old. I don't know why. If a dress is beautiful, and it's very personal, I think it can live forever.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Live
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

  

  Patti LuPone
  • Time
  • Work
  • America

• It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

  

  John Baldessari
  • Desire

• I used the stormy gray and heather brown shadows from the Lilac Rose Eye Palette to create a soft smokey eye for Veronica Beard's Spring 2013 show. The look was dramatic but delicate.

  

  Bobbi Brown
  • Spring
  • Rose

• I do not think that any man should be attacked because of his race or religion, or that he should be immune from attack because of race or religion.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Should

• We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

  

  Jerry Brown
  • Work

• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Person

• The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Race
  • Thoughtful