Donald McCaig Quotes
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.
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As I grew, I learned to love myself more every day and not pay attention to the negative people, which helped a lot.
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The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.
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Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
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Do I think it is good policy for the government to own companies? Normally, I'd say 'no.' But in my world, if a firm puts itself in a position that it needs a last minute rescue, and the future is uncertain at best, then the investor who steps into that breach ends up owning the company. Full stop.
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I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.
