Christine McVie Quotes
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.
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'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
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Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to do. Most of them don't care about you or your situation as long as they get some money.
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You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me.
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I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.
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It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.
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I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.
