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 Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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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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To make headway, improve your head.
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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 hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
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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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It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
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Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change.
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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.
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A woman scoffs at evidence. Show her the sun, tell her it is daylight, at once she will close her eyes and say to you, "No, it is night.
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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.
