Jim McKay Quotes
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.
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From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
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The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.
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I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.
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The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
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I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
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I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?
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When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.
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A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.
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As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
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When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...
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Robert Smigel is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches. He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.
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I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.
