David MacKenzie Quotes

As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.

David MacKenzie

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LookingMoreNarrativeSomethingGet

In a world of oversharing, we don't want to be unknown or unseen. We don't want to be left out.

Meghan Daum

WorldWantUnknownOutLeftUnseen

I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions.

John Irving

ConfidenceBelieveDirectionYouWay

My greatest fear: repetition.

Max Frisch

FearRepetitionGreatest

If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.

Amanda de Cadenet

BrotherParentsMindMeBelieve

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

LeaderTechnologyScienceResearch

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Marya Mannes

WomenMoneyMenAmericanLossKnow

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

Mira Sorvino

HopePeopleDoingKindCircumstances

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

Joyce Carol Oates

LifeEndingBe TrueInevitableTrue

I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.

Cornelia Parker

LifeRelationshipWorldRestFeel

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

ASAP Ferg

FunnyWordsYourselfMeThinkLaugh

To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual understanding of why you want those things.

Alice Sebold

MeUnderstandingYouHeavenWant

Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.

Paul Watson

PeopleEarthFishermenCommercial

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