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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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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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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For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.
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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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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.
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Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
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The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.
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How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul!
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I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
