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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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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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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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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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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Romeo and Juliet *died*. I always liked that in a teen romance story.
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Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
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The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.
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What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?
