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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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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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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Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.
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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.
