Ken MacLeod Quotes
'… a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'' – Newton's Wake
 
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	I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.   
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	I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.   
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	That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.   
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	Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.   
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	I want the single player experience.   
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	We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.   
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	I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.   
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	With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.   
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	I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.   
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	There are certain things women are better at than men.   
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	I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.   
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	Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.   
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	No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.   
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	If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.   
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	I have to be honest - I don't love guns.   
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	Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.   
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	My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.   
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	I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.   
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	Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.   
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	Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. 'In love-ness' is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about 'happy' and 'unhappy' marriages.   
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	Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.   
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	When I have a breakthrough in music and I hear the melody in my hands: that's when I get compelled - something in my gut just has to rise up and sing and put something to that.   
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	I love those who do not know how to live for today.   
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	'… a faded black T-shirt with a soaring penguin and the slogan 'Where do you want to come from today?'' – Newton's Wake   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					