Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.Terence McKenna
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
Wayne Dyer -
Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
Gary Clark Jr. -
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks -
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
Samuel Beckett -
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
C. L. R. James -
A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
Jacki Weaver
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx -
I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.
Taylour Paige -
The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
Dan Stevens -
I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
Salma Hayek -
Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
Damon Galgut -
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
H. P. Lovecraft
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
Vanessa Paradis -
I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
Alicia Keys -
Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.
Amy Poehler -
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
Curt Flood -
I've always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
Bette Midler
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
Earl Campbell -
Barnes are blessings.
William Shakespeare -
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.
Terence McKenna