Vicky McClure Quotes
There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there.
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I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.
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I want to be surprised by what people do, I don't want to work with people who need to be told what to do. I want people to show me what they've got.
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As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
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I like guys who, no matter what, are men.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
