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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My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.
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I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.
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I wanna go play my music in a club.
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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.
