Charles E. McKenzie Quotes
The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
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Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.
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It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'
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You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.
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Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.
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You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.
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I like his game; I really do. He's going to be good for the tour.
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
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The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.
