Anne McKevitt Quotes
Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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Just listen to these people. You'd swear they understood each other though not one of them has any idea what their words actually mean to another.
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I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.
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Advertising is much like war, minus the venom.
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I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.
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I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
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Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?
