Bryant H. McGill Quotes
When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
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I'm a girl who loves shoes. There is nothing like the feeling of trying on shoes at the store and they fit perfectly.
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I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
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I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.
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I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
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When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.