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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When I've got time off, my feet get itchy really quickly.
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The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.
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I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
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In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.
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I really like the last three Luna records a whole lot, especially 'Penthouse.' I think of all the records I've done, that's my favorite. I don't know why, really. I don't know why some records turn out better than others. It's not a science.
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Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
