Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
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As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
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Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
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You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.
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I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.
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I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
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I don't know how 'X Factor' works. I was only there as a guest judge for a day. But I watched 'The Voice' a lot; I respected how it came across on TV, and I love the freedom we get as coaches to do what we want.
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The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.
