Dave McKean Quotes

Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

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• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Money
  • Comedy

• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • School
  • Small
  • Small Town

• I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Gift

• My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Help
  • Technique
  • Physical

• I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Faith
  • Candidate

• No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Christian
  • Civilization

• I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • She
  • Dream

• Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Advice

• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • God
  • Man
  • Almighty

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Always

• I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Always

• These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Training
  • Nobody
  • Coach

• The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Scene

• To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • May
  • More
  • Riches

• When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • You
  • Question
  • Trump

• Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Great
  • Done
  • Small

• Sometimes you feel a need to express yourself, and there is no better way than to go to places where people need everything. It's dramatic, it's tragic. You just can't understand why, in the world of today, there are still things like that. The images you see on TV kill you. Of course when you are there (at these trouble spots) you can't turn off the TV. You are face-to-face with reality.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• Sometimes we need help from a god

  

  Tina Turner
  • Sometimes
  • Helping

• Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

  

  Dave McKean
  • Sometimes
  • Bird
  • Abandon