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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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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I wish," Jared began, and stopped, breathing in. "Do you remember how you used to believe I wasn't real? Sometimes I wish that was true. If I was just a thought in the back of your mind, then I'd be with you, and I'd be better.
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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.
