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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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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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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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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When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.
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I think that's it's really important to have good friends. Nowadays, you can text 24 hours a day and be in constant contact, but every once in a while, it's nice to just get out with your girlfriends and have fun.
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I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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It says that it's disorganized and what's probably even more damning is to hear the Clinton and Ferrer people bickering about who's fault it was.
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I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
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I never liked pep rallies. I found school spirit hard to deal with. I am much more oriented towards the individual.
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...one sees differently with color photography than black-and-white... in short, visualization must be modified by the specific nature of the equipment and materials being used.
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Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.
