Ken MacLeod Quotes
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.
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Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
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I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do.
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Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.
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You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.
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Never confuse perfection with production. People who don’t make mistakes aren’t doing anything.
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A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.
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I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.
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Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
