Richard MacDonald Quotes
The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
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Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
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Jealousy is a scary thing.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.
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If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.
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The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.
