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.
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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.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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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.
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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.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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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.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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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.
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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.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.
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I've been overseas more than you have in your whole little life.
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Crisper is great. The future of gene therapy looks bright.
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Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be called scientific natural history, which makes available the groundwork - the foundation work - of what is actually on the Earth.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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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.
