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Rory MacLean Quotes

Since the summer days of my Canadian childhood, I have loved to canoe across the dark mirror of northern lakes, paddling with an inside flick of the blade, leaving a trail of twisting whirlpools in my wake.

Rory MacLean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 5, 1954

Topics

Mirror Childhood Loved Trail Dark

It's cool to see a woman be like, 'This is what I want - this is what I don't want.' It's good to see someone making choices for themselves.

Jessica Williams

Good Woman Cool Choices Someone See

I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.

Jeremy Sumpter

People Laugh Been Making Maybe

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

Andrew Young

Respect North Korea Wants North Iran

I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.

Rivers Cuomo

Music School Back Lifestyle Rock

In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

Rob Lowe

Yourself Comedy You Know Seriously

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Art Me Deep New Study Impression

When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.

Martine Syms

Myself Process Doing Stop Know Up

In service industries, we can be so people-pleaser-y that you don't know how to set your own boundaries.

Jonathan Van Ness

Service You Know Boundaries Own Set

I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived.

Dolores O'Riordan

People Growing Up Know Living Lived

I'm into short emails.

Denis McDonough

Short Emails

With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree.

Christian Cooke

Time You Always Degree Working Some

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men.

Colman Domingo

Positive History Time Men People