Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
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Everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...
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It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
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Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.
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Wrong believing puts people in a prison. Right believing is a light that illuminates the path to freedom out of this prison.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
