Jim McKay Quotes
Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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I have learned how to better handle things as they come.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.
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Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay at home and watch TV and do something else. Move into the woods and live with the trees.
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I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
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Fame is definitely a monster: it can suck you in and spit you out and change you. The biggest challenge is to remain yourself regardless of what people say about you.
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I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
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Treat your online affairs as part of your affairs that need to be in order - your bank, your Internet bill - you need to have people who know what you want.
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I'm not ashamed to speak about anything. And what I'm telling you is real; it's from the heart.
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The more a religion is aware of its opposition in principle to economic rationalization as such, the more apt are the religion’s virtuosi to reject the world, especially its economic activities.
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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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Of course I am happy to play in any of the attacking roles, but for me, where I can score the most goals is down the middle.
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Right now the thing that I have learned the most is to be grateful that I have finally gotten to a point where I am being paid to make films, after eight years.
