Donald McCaig Quotes
It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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I record my radio show, and my staff makes me a nice lunch in the kitchen, usually fish - whatever's freshest and line-caught - and a salad. I drink water and herbal tea, a blend of catnip, elderberry, and horehound.
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Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.
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Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
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I like actors - such as Margaret Rutherford and Peter Lorre - who aren't afraid to over-act like real people. When I take a job, I can always come up with ten different ways of doing the part. But I'll always choose the flashiest one. You've got to dress the window a bit.
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It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.
