Richard MacDonald Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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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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We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.
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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.
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When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
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There are very few people who do what I do.
