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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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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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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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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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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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
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I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew.
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If you look at Obama - I think that what you saw during those eight years, and in those last few weeks, was that he really loves people and he is going to miss them. And that he deeply appreciate the opportunity he was given.
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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.
