Mac DeMarco Quotes

At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Character
  • You
  • Look

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Journey

• There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Voice

• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mother
  • Sins
  • Beware

• My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Shadow
  • Hip Hop

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Change
  • Yourself

• A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Desire
  • Audience
  • Conformity

• I don't do meetings.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Meetings

• The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • Love
  • True

• The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • You
  • English
  • Say

• I'm a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I'm hitting certain points in the script and that I'm progressing and moving things along. You know, are the characters keeping the plot moving along? And are they true, and do I know their motivations?

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • True
  • Moving

• These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • People
  • Experience
  • Cutting

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• 'We need a reserve of life, every kind of life,' he explained. 'Today for the spirit-a glimpse of space and green. Tomorrow for survival, flat-out survival.'

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Life
  • Today
  • Space

• At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing