Norman McLaren Quotes
In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
Quotes to Explore
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
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I live every day, day to day. I will go wherever life takes me. I'm not questioning it.
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Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!
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As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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My style has changed and evolved mainly because I've grown to have more confidence in myself.
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I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
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Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.
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Art is a delivery system for worldviews.
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In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.
