Christian McKay Quotes
I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.
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Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
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I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.
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'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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I don't really listen to music. I don't. I watch television.
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I always loved music, to dance, and to be really active. When I started skating, it was the first time all of these things came together. It felt like magic, and I always wanted to be at the rink.
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Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.
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I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.
