Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.
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We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
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She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.
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Direction is a lot of responsibility. But if you've been trained under Balachander as I have, it's a lot easier. You have everything down on paper before you start shooting. By now while directing I am experienced enough to know my moves.
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I think at some point I am going to throw in the belt and decide to stick behind the camera.
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Jazz comes from anywhere the human being has a soul and has a heart.
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One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
