Jim McKay Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
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The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science.
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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The purchase of any item which helps strengthen Zionism is not permissible.
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Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.
