Christine McVie Quotes
I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
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The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
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Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
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I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.
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I think I still have [commemorative coin ] somewhere. Why was this given to me? I think every child in the country must have received one [ from Queen's Silver Jubilee]. That's the last time that I recall something of an innocent, more-or-less unquestioning monarchist patriotism in Britain.
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When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.
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You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
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The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.
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I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time with my family.
