Christine McVie Quotes
I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I can only control what I can control.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.
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For me, it's just more satisfying when you follow the rules rather than just make a bunch of sounds. The magic of just making noise in the studio goes away after a while.
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Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
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The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
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If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.
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I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
