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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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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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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It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still pretty amazing.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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*Race! It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. Amusingly enough, not one of those who have proclaimed the 'nobility' of the Teutonic race was himself a Teuton.
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My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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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.
