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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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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When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player. Something like 'Aheym' is very virtuosic - but because I have a history of performing music, I don't like unplayable music.
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All great players want to be the reason the team wins.
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With each film, I try to outdo my previous films.
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No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.
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But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.
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I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.
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Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.
