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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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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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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True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
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Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.
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In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
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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.
