Allison Mackie Quotes
Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique ‘insights' happen in the dark

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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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People trash talk me.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance.
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It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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When you first hear the name 'Max Irons,' you'd be forgiven for assuming that Marvel comics has come up with a new superhero.
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If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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The more defensive a society, the more conformist.
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In manliness he will greet my trouble, Should I be bled, I should evidently get better; Truly I saw no one before, who saw not in me Every indisposition, he will cultivate his business.
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Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?
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You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind." "Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.
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Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique ‘insights' happen in the dark