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 think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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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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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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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 find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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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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When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
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But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
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I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
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I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.
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Success can be as simple as the warm feeling you get when you smile at a stranger, someone you know must be lonely, and having that stranger return your smile. It can be the bringing of a child into the world and raising that child to be a good man or woman.
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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.
