David McCallum Quotes
I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I've never been a partier.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.
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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
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Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
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I promised myself that I wouldn't be afraid to be who I was when I chose to do this music thing.
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I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
