William McFee Quotes
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.
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San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.
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No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.
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What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!
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It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
