Brian McDermott Quotes
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
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I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.
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I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.
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So far, I'm known for doing more commercial and glamorous roles. But I don't mind doing a short film.
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My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.