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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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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When you're here, you want to be here the next year.
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One touch of Christ is worth a lifetime of struggling.
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I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
