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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Creating a warm, caring, supportive, encouraging environment is probably the most important thing you can do for your family.
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
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I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.
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The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.
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When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.
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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.
