Bryant H. McGill Quotes
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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I was born free.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
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Oh, Diane Nash deserves her own film. Diane Nash is a freedom fighter who is still alive and kicking. She was one of the leaders of the desegregation of Nashville, basically. She was a student at Fisk University who was one of the founding members of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
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I have sort of the career where, if you are a fan, you've been following me for a while, and you really like something that I've done, so meeting those people is always a really gracious experience.
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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
