Bryant H. McGill Quotes
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.
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The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.
