Hugh Macleod quote: "The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy."

If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will ...
HUGH MACLEOD

You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired mo...
HUGH MACLEOD

Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piec...
HUGH MACLEOD

If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will ...
HUGH MACLEOD

It's about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth.
HUGH MACLEOD

Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc,...
HUGH MACLEOD

Diluting your product to make it more 'commercial' will just make people like it less.
HUGH MACLEOD

Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, t...
HUGH MACLEOD

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
HUGH MACLEOD

Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the wor...
HUGH MACLEOD

The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur.
That means hanging out more wi...
HUGH MACLEOD

When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it%uFFFDs usually a case of them not knowing where th...
HUGH MACLEOD

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more peopl...
HUGH MACLEOD

The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the despe...
HUGH MACLEOD

The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling ...
HUGH MACLEOD

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
HUGH MACLEOD

The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. ...
HUGH MACLEOD

Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it.
It's your freedom...
HUGH MACLEOD

All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.
HUGH MACLEOD

There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as t...
HUGH MACLEOD

Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially res...
HUGH MACLEOD

If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can overri...
HUGH MACLEOD

The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the k...
HUGH MACLEOD

Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save th...
HUGH MACLEOD

The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after youve 'm...
HUGH MACLEOD

If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you ...
HUGH MACLEOD

Stamina is utterly important. And stamina is only possible if it's managed well. People think all th...
HUGH MACLEOD

People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his ...
HUGH MACLEOD

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. be...
HUGH MACLEOD

People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; may...
HUGH MACLEOD

The best way to get approval is not to need it.
HUGH MACLEOD

You cant love a crowd the same way you can love a person.
And a crowd cant love you the way ...
HUGH MACLEOD

Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won't. It's that s...
HUGH MACLEOD

Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.
HUGH MACLEOD

Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.
HUGH MACLEOD

Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the ...
HUGH MACLEOD

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
HUGH MACLEOD

People are fond of spouting out the old cliché about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his life...
HUGH MACLEOD

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the ot...
HUGH MACLEOD

The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with t...
HUGH MACLEOD

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kidergarten. Then wen you hit puber...
HUGH MACLEOD

If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can over...
HUGH MACLEOD

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
IAIN MACLEOD

Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If...
ROBERT MACLEOD

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my fac...
FIONA MACLEOD

We're confident that the basics have been done but we can't be over-confident, we can't get complace...
ANDREW MACLEOD

Had the winter set in when it was supposed to have set in, we would have had enormous problems with ...
ANDREW MACLEOD

Even as sufficient pledges have been made for recovery and reconstruction, relief is still less than...
ANDREW MACLEOD

What they have on 1 December is what they have all winter.
ANDREW MACLEOD

The United Nations is still operating on the government's official numbers. There are regions that s...
ANDREW MACLEOD

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warre...
KEN MACLEOD

Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place....
GAVIN MACLEOD

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doe...
DOUG MACLEOD

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconc...
KEN MACLEOD

History is too serious to be left to historians.
IAN MACLEOD

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it...
GAVIN MACLEOD

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
NORMAN MACLEOD

The only thing worse than paying income tax is not paying income tax
DONALD MACLEOD

The key thing this solves is the guaranteed delivery of credentials to a worker, wherever they may b...
CALUM MACLEOD

I don't believe in the UFO mythology but I find it fascinating. Episodically, I find it fascinating.
KEN MACLEOD

We decided on a more direct approach instead.
ALEX MACLEOD

There are literally tens of thousands of publicly accessible applications, from internet banking, go...
CALUM MACLEOD

I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it...
GAVIN MACLEOD

The ones that most rang true to us were in the area of how companies look to stability and certainty...
MARK MACLEOD

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're ...
GAVIN MACLEOD

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Co...
KEN MACLEOD

We've been working towards this for a long time, both provincially and nationally, so that emergency...
KEN MACLEOD

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly inven...
KEN MACLEOD

How beautiful they are, / The lordly ones, / Who dwell in the hills, / In the hollow hills.
FIONA MACLEOD

That evening, Hope wrote a letter to her MP, Jack Crow. She found no difficulty at all in composing ...
KEN MACLEOD

We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Satur...
GAVIN MACLEOD

Scions of old families who've hit the skids do like to flaunt their illustrious ancestors....
CHARLOTTE MACLEOD

The same applies in the display area. The ingredients for growth are there. Those portions of the ma...
DONALD MACLEOD

The mobile-phone marketplace for semiconductor products is one of the best opportunities out there t...
DONALD MACLEOD

We're looking at the holiday selling season this year with some concern.
DONALD MACLEOD

I think in general, all of us are somewhat disappointed in the second half of this calendar year in ...
DONALD MACLEOD

I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play...
GAVIN MACLEOD

We guided Wall Street to expect five-to-seven percent sequential growth. With about two weeks to go,...
DON MACLEOD

Financial records are protected. We can't, by law, get your tax forms. To get personal credit histor...
DON MACLEOD

As scary and creepy as it is that you have access to this information, it is public record. It isn't...
DON MACLEOD

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.
DOUG MACLEOD

Imagine a world where speaking or writing words can literally or directly make things happen, where ...
KEN MACLEOD

I feel like I’m going to die,’ he says.
‘Could we talk for a few minutes before you die?�...
DOUG MACLEOD

That always has been horribly unfair. But in classical theater there's always a dearth of female rol...
FIONA MACLEOD

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I, too, will set my ...
FIONA MACLEOD

The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water.
KEN MACLEOD

We feel we stepped up to the plate.
MARK MACLEOD

There were a number of issues, a number of gaps, that we could not close. Equity was a key part.
MARK MACLEOD

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.
ALISTAIR MACLEOD

I hope somebody escorts it out to sea again, otherwise it's going to get a bit confused.
JOAN MACLEOD

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity cont...
KEN MACLEOD

Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases... I don’t know why that struck me,...
GAVIN MACLEOD

Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. ...
GAVIN MACLEOD

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
HUGH HEFNER

I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about ...
HUGH JACKMAN

There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands;...
HUGH JACKMAN

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It d...
HUGH JACKMAN

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and reali...
HUGH JACKMAN

I'm not a loner at all.
HUGH JACKMAN

In terms of theater, there's not a more supportive theater community than in New York. It's ...
HUGH JACKMAN

I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you ...
HUGH JACKMAN

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy...
HUGH JACKMAN

Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.
HUGH JACKMAN

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of...
HUGH JACKMAN

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.
HUGH JACKMAN

My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin...
HUGH JACKMAN

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I t...
HUGH JACKMAN

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
HUGH JACKMAN

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think i...
HUGH JACKMAN

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
HUGH JACKMAN

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.
HUGH LAURIE

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned aro...
HUGH HEFNER

I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curio...
HUGH GRANT

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
HUGH MILLER

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
HUGH HEFNER

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we&#...
HUGH LAURIE

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, w...
HUGH HEFNER

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the upri...
HUGH MASEKELA

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs....
HUGH EVANS

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.
HUGH GRANT

I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'...
HUGH GRANT

Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
HUGH GRANT

Love expands.
HUGH PRATHER

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and presen...
HUGH EVANS

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
HUGH GRANT

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll ...
HUGH GRANT

It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues ...
HUGH LAURIE

'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes...
HUGH GRANT

Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially...
HUGH ROSS

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and ...
HUGH HEFNER

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
HUGH HEFNER

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
HUGH MACLENNAN

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
HUGH PRATHER

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or t...
HUGH JACKMAN

Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
HUGH WALPOLE

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
HUGH LAURIE

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain...
HUGH DOWNS

If you delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, you overcharge the morrow with a burden wh...
HUGH BLAIR

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
HUGH NIBLEY

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
HUGH BLAIR

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and ...
HUGH BLAIR

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
HUGH BLAIR

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
HUGH BLAIR

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
HUGH BLAIR

To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother,...
HUGH LAURIE

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and...
HUGH BLAIR

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always f...
HUGH HOWEY

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties
HUGH BLAIR

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and...
HUGH WHITE

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much wate...
HUGH ELLIOTT

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, a...
HUGH ELLIOTT

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right ...
HUGH ELLIOTT

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
HUGH ELLIOTT

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love...
HUGH LAURIE

I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo...
HUGH LAURIE

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets...
HUGH JACKMAN

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE

Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place ...
HUGH SHELTON

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serv...
HUGH SHELTON

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
HUGH WALPOLE

Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the...
HUGH ROSS

I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He w...
HUGH JACKMAN

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
HUGH PRATHER

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...
HUGH LAURIE

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's m...
HUGH HEFNER

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
HUGH GRANT

We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati...
HUGH SHELTON

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quali...
HUGH GRANT

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend...
HUGH MILLER

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a c...
HUGH SIDEY

The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe...
HUGH LAURIE

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly en...
HUGH JACKMAN

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
HUGH HEFNER

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irr...
HUGH MACKAY

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE

The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining ...
HUGH HEFNER

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
HUGH PRATHER

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It g...
HUGH JACKMAN

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in...
HUGH PRATHER

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.
HUGH PRATHER

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long a...
HUGH PRATHER

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better...
HUGH JACKMAN

I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
HUGH GRANT

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
HUGH BLAIR

It's much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.
HUGH HUDSON

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew...
HUGH MASEKELA

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the ...
HUGH LAURIE

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
HUGH HEFNER

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our childr...
HUGH MACKAY

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a ...
HUGH MACKAY

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.
HUGH MACKAY

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem ...
HUGH MACKAY

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaning...
HUGH MACKAY

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to ...
HUGH MACKAY

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for sayin...
HUGH MACKAY

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely con...
HUGH MACKAY

The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy.

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The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy.

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