Jim McKay Quotes
Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!
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Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.
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Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.
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Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens.
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Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
