Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Imagination rules the world.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
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I owe everything to France.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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For me, to be in a place where I'm on the 'favourite' list of top directors I like, that's being number one. There is no other definition to me. It's not money; it's not how many songs you're seen in or how many clothes you're changing in the film.
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The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
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The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.
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Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.
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What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
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When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.
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It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.
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I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
