Joe McNally Quotes
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
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Isolationism is over.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever. I now feel sure that the realization of that idea is not far off. ...the possibilities of the development I refer to, namely, that of the operation of engines on any point of the earth by the energy of the medium.
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I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.
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I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.
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High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.
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Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
