Warren MacKenzie Quotes
We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to sit in on discussions, aesthetic discussions at the pottery, which took place generally over tea breaks in the morning and afternoon. So we learned a lot just from being around there with Bernard Leach.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
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Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.
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Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.
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The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.
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It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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You can make all the excuses you want, but if you're not mentally tough and you're not prepared to play every night, you're not going to win.
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So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.
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Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to sit in on discussions, aesthetic discussions at the pottery, which took place generally over tea breaks in the morning and afternoon. So we learned a lot just from being around there with Bernard Leach.
