Richard MacDonald Quotes
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
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Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
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I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
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How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street; it does generate buzz.
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Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.
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I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.
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When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.
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I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.
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Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.
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There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.
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There are certain films you want to see on the big screen.
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The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
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There are very few people who do what I do.
