Donald McCaig Quotes
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
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Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.
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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.
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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
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When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
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Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward.
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When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.
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When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.
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As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
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I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.
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I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
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If you're wondering what I mean by 'miracle,' it's simple: a miracle is a shift in perspective from fear to love. A miracle can be the moment you choose to forgive your ex-lover and let go of decades of resentment, or the moment you recognize that losing your job was not a tragedy but an opportunity to follow your true calling.
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So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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'Yeah, right. I know what's really going on: Heather's hired you to kill me, hasn't she?''Sammy!''Why else would you catapult me through the air and feed me to a man-eating cot?'
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You are a tedious fool.
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I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.
