Bryant H. McGill Quotes
It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
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Email helps me keep in touch with my family. I wouldn't know what my extended family was doing every day if we weren't emailing each other.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.
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Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
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It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
