Dave McKean Quotes
I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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I think there are a lot of great ideas out in America, and I want you to have a say in your government. And that means we have to get unaccountable money out of our politics, overturn Citizens United, and expand voting rights, not restrict them.
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We'll be raising our hands Shining up to the sky Cause we've got the fire fire fire And we gonna let it burn
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
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I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.
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I... propose that time and its passage are fundamental and real and the hopes and beliefs about timeless truths and timeless realms are mythology.
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Anything is better than stagnation.
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A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea.
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People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.
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Take care of the hearts you've been entrusted with. Once lost, they can be lost from you forever.
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I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.
