Mackendrick Quotes & Sayings

Gratitude
is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than
your ego is always at work and always available. — Wayne Dyer

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good. — Alexander Mackendrick

The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else. — Alexander Mackendrick

The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to. — Craig Finn

Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage."
"Have you gone crazy? They'll ... " Eragon's voice trailed off as he thought about it. "They won't be able to do a thing."
"Exactly," said Saphira. "We can inflict lots of damage from a safe height."
"Let's drop rocks on them! — Christopher Paolini

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.' — Miranda Leek

To stop war, teach peace, love, cooperation, and most of all - forgiveness. — Debasish Mridha

A leader can only be free to lead his team if he keeps abreast of all that is happening around him - in real time. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

What does it mean to be psychic? Essentially it means to feel, rather than think all the time. — Frederick Lenz

The will to power, the force of desire, appears as an insensitive urge to dominate. But several points in Nietzsche's work speak against such a reading. The "self" includes the desire above all for self-overcoming. It is our own limits we most seek to break. — Karmen MacKendrick

Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American. — Alexander Mackendrick

An effective tsar could be harsh provided he was consistently harsh. Rulers are often killed not for brutality but for inconsistency. And tsars had to inspire trust and respect among their courtiers but sacred reverence among the peasantry, 90 per cent of their subjects, who saw them as "Little Fathers." They were expected to be severe to their officials but benign to their peasant "children": "the tsar is good," peasants said, "the nobles are wicked. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation. — Alexander Mackendrick

I wouldn't give a fuck if you only got hard-ons for unicorns, dude. — S.J. Goslee