Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.
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There's been times where I sold the place out, and I walked in and the guy's like, 'Uh, ID?' 'No, you can't ID me, man. I just sold this place out.' People are just doing their jobs, but I think if you're working the door at a venue where there's a headliner, you should at least be like, 'OK, this is the dude.'
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.
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I like to describe 'Yellowstone' is 'The Great Gatsby' on the largest ranch in Montana. Then it's really a study of the changing of the West.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
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I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'
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I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.
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If I was any more on edge, I'd be Bono.
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God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.
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Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
