Christian McKay Quotes
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
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When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
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My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.
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Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
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The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
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The one thing women love more than money is power.
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Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free - he is in his own trap.
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I respect Floyd as a fighter but come 5 May, he's going to be hurting for weeks.
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All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.
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Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
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We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.
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People want to classify and say, 'OK, this is a gangster film.' 'This is a Western.' 'This is a... ' You know? It's easy to classify and it makes people feel comfortable, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter.
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As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.
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In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.
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Some actors play themselves, don't they?
