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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Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.
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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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Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.
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One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.
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Divine the Powers that on this trio wait. Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate. Love, Work, and Faith - these three alone are great.
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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.
