Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
Tamara Tunie -
Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
J. A. Konrath -
The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
Ophelia Lovibond -
Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
Edoardo Ponti -
In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
Nancy Kress
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
Kate Reardon -
I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
Malcolm Gladwell -
If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
Maelle Gavet -
I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
Felix Baumgartner -
Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
Kacey Musgraves -
A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
Federica Mogherini
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There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
Brown Campbell -
The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
Yannis Stournaras -
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
Laura Miller -
You can act, or you can't. I'm sure a lot of people who are serious about acting would disagree, but I'm not really worried about them.
Chelsea Handler -
I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
David Bergen -
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
David Wenham
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I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.
Trisha Yearwood -
A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.
Andrae Crouch -
To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
Joe Rogan -
No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?
H. G. Wells -
Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
Terence McKenna