David McCallum Quotes
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
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The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
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A good leader must be fair.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.
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If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
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I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.
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I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.
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Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
