Bryant H. McGill Quotes
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.
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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
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Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
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Seeing your baby in pain and seeing them crying and that sort of thing, and you're tired, and you can do nothing about it - that's, like, one of the most demoralizing things I can think of.
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
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Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
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But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
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I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.
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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
