Christian McKay Quotes
I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd thought I'd work up through the ranks and go from spear carrier - or in my case, the eunuch, which was several rungs below the spear carrier - to King Lear.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I don't want to write the song that I wrote yesterday, and I don't want to write the song I'm going to write tomorrow; I only write the music I'm writing now.
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Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.
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... I can't work well under the conditions at Bell Labs. Walter and I are looking at a few questions relating to point-contact transistors, but Shockley keeps all the interesting problems for himself.
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I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special
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I was at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where I thought, in my naivete, I'd stay for the rest of my career. I'd thought I'd work up through the ranks and go from spear carrier - or in my case, the eunuch, which was several rungs below the spear carrier - to King Lear.
