Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
M. J. Rose -
In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
Gareth Gates -
The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
Damon Lindelof -
I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
Omar Sharif -
I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
Caitlin Rose -
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
Francine Busby
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
Harlan Coben -
The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
Forest Whitaker -
Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.
Flavor Flav -
For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
Yves Behar -
A million years went by quick.
Carlton Fisk
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The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
Samora Machel -
I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.'
Jack Canfield -
We must not be squeamish when we learn that a total of 17,000 have been shot. We are now duty bound to hold together, we who are gathered together here figure on Mr. Roosevelt's list of war criminals. I have the honour of being Number One.
Hans Frank -
The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
Warren Farrell -
The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.
Jay Leno -
I've been doing second unit for years, which is sort of like directing mini movies. Now that I'm directing entire films, it's really just more of everything. There are a lot more questions that need answers.
David Leitch
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Spirituality is a word that is bandied about a lot. So I think it might mean different things to different people. I know that the United States of America is something of a religious country, but not necessarily a spiritual country.
Charles Lloyd -
For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.
Oprah Winfrey -
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you - Then, it will be true.
Langston Hughes -
You look at him and he's just a born footballer.
Eddie Charles Jones -
We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
Terence McKenna