Karl Mecklenburg Quotes
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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It's so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.
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Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Success is overcoming obstacles on the way to your dreams.
