Bryant H. McGill Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I'd like to do more acting.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
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Stop talking about the problem and start thinking about the solution.
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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
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Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
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I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.
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The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.
