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.
Van Morrison -
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
Jack Adams -
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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 -
Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
Kate Fleetwood -
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor Hugo
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I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.
Taiye Selasi -
I owe everything to France.
Ingrid Betancourt -
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 -
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde -
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 -
The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
Gary Herbert
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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.
Bat for Lashes -
Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.
Watt Key -
For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.
Walker Percy -
Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
Alan Ball -
People used to call her Debbie Reynolds' daughter. Now they call me Princess Leia's mother!
Debbie Reynolds -
I didn't know what acting school was, so I went onto the computer and typed 'acting school.' I found one in Berlin, and I found ones in Vienna, Zurich, and London. I went to all of those places to audition. You were supposed to have two monologues, and I only had one.
Vicky Krieps
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Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.
Bonnie Raitt -
I get nervous playing the Opry still. You take that nervous energy and channel it into being amped.
Dierks Bentley -
I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.
Billy Carter -
I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I didn't do any White people. I was shocked, because my mandate is to do Black studies. It would have never occurred to me if this lady hadn't written this letter. We decided we were going expand the brand and do everybody.
Henry Louis Gates -
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
Rebecca MacKinnon