Joel McCrea Quotes
I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
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I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.
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If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be
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I like sugar, be it candy, this season's pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for me. It just sits on my tummy, causing my middle child Esme to ask if we are having a fourth baby. Rude!
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The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky!
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The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'
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I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.