Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
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The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.
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What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.
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I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.
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O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.
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Tides is a rich, taut, suspenseful, and funny exploration of two worlds, selkie and human. It's full of mystery but it's also so fully imagined that a reader can jump right in. Betsy Cornwell is a terrific new talent with a boundless imagination.
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The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
