Bryant H. McGill Quotes
Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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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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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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I've never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. I'm more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.
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Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.
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I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
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Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
