Mac DeMarco Quotes
Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
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The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
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I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.
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When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.
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I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.
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Usually when festivals are really huge it's kind of weird. It's totally fun for me and my band to play in front of a crowd that doesn't necessarily know who we are, but festivals get pretty impersonal when they get super large.
