Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!
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Lyndon Johnson is a Southerner who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage|mess of dark pottage.
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75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.
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Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.
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If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
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So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.
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You learn tricks to make action look more dynamic - having the fight come toward you or shooting on a longer lens to compress the speed.
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I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.
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Every state need not start with state policing if they can't fund it.
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The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
