Donald McKay Quotes

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

Donald McKay

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Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

John Ortberg

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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

John Lothrop Motley

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Most of my major roles have been to play characters that the audience does not initially like or warm up to and then they grow to like in spite of that.

Robert Picardo

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When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.

Matt Lauer

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Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the script to say yes.

Stellan Skarsgard

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If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance.

Steven Pressfield

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Price is the least interesting thing about bitcoin.

Roger Ver

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Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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I believe the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a very large swath of the American population, really wants to imagine that race and racial inequality is something we don't have to think about anymore, don't have to worry about anymore.

Michelle Alexander

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Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Milarepa

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You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail. I'm a big advocate of therapy and third-party intervention.

Lisa Ling

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Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?

Jason Reitman

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