Richard MacDonald Quotes
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
Quotes to Explore
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Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
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I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.
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Quantitatively, outsourcing abroad simply cannot account for much of the recent weakness in the U.S. labor market and does not appear likely to be an .important restraint to further recovery in employment.
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Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.
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It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.
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Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.
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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.
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I am not now That which I have been.
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People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And to young people from violent homes, I say: pray and forgive. And again, even to the single mother with no family support: pray and forgive.
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Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild and conciliatory.
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Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.
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People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form.
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When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.
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We are all so much more complicated than we allow ourselves to appear.
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Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.
