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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'Life, Love & Hope' is... I'm thinking 'larger picture.' I'm not trying to preach to anyone. We all get lost and caught up in our everyday problems. Your cellphone doesn't work or you got a parking ticket, you had a bad day at work. You can lose sight of the really important things in life; that's what the song is about.
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If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.
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If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.
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I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
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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.
