Rebecca MacKinnon Quotes

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

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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.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Thought
  • Doing
  • Blues

• I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Parents
  • June
  • Navy

• 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.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Age
  • Famous
  • Golden

• Imagination rules the world.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Rules

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Humble
  • Ride
  • Beginnings

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Her

• I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • I Can

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Good
  • Art
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Writing

• 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.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Art

• For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Want
  • Hard
  • Worked

• It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • Moment
  • Events

• I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Know
  • Person

• 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.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Place
  • Directors

• The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Mind
  • Tax
  • Permanent

• I want to tell you about the God that actually showed up and healed my heart. Not the God I grew up, because the God I grew up was fundamentally, and I use the word advisedly, fundamentally untrustworthy -- schizophrenic, narcissistic, unreachable, unknowable, and my concept within which I grew up was that Jesus -- He likes me -- but He came to save me from God the Father -- who was the one who was angry and distant, and unreachable, unknowable. All of that had to come crashing down.

  

  William P. Young
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Jesus

• In 2012, I was invited to a ski event called the Hartford Ski Spectacular to learn how to sit-ski for the first time. I loved it, but it was not pretty - I was not good. I didn't know how to stop, so I kept throwing myself on the ground.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Help
  • Me
  • Study

• The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Study
  • Stock
  • Technique

• I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

  

  Rebecca MacKinnon
  • Government
  • Study
  • Dissent