Mac DeMarco Quotes
[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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Acting is a trial-and-error business. Every actor has a few movies on their resume that they're not terribly proud of, but that's how you learn.
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That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.
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The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.
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[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.
