Richard McKenna Quotes
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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I do have too many eight-inch heels which I never get to wear.
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I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
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My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
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I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
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I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult – that kind of made me nervous.
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Jai jaigarvi Gujarat mantra jeevant karne ke liye hame shanti ka marg hi chahiye. In order to give life to the mantra of Jai Garvi Gujarat, we need to follow the path of peace.
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The life that I aspire to liveNo man proposeth me-No trade upon the streetWears its emblazonry.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.
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Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.
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Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.
