Bryant H. McGill Quotes
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. These beings weren’t human, but they were people, she told herself; it’s not them, they’re us.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'
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Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.
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There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
