Ken MacLeod Quotes
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.
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Any kid in my position coming from being an All-American and all that wants to be the guy that makes all the plays coming into their freshman year.
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I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.
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To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law-to be linked with the vast outside-to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate-surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!
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(8 hours after the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster)