Joel McCrea Quotes
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
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People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.
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I never pretended to be a great actor.
