Warren MacKenzie Quotes
We did respect Bernard Leach, although we also were willing to challenge ideas and at least put forth our feelings about the way the pottery was run, about things that were done, about the pots we were making, etc. And we would get into sometimes some very fierce arguments. We'd be shouting at one another because of disagreements.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
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I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
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It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
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When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.
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There are great fans in Chicago. I think you'd rather have them recognize than not recognize you.
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I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.
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Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.
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In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.
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It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
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Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
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We did respect Bernard Leach, although we also were willing to challenge ideas and at least put forth our feelings about the way the pottery was run, about things that were done, about the pots we were making, etc. And we would get into sometimes some very fierce arguments. We'd be shouting at one another because of disagreements.
