John C. McGinley Quotes
TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I'm bigger now than when I was eating meat. My lifts in the gym are better. I'm in better shape.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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There's no way that a third party wins without being in the presidential debates. I think the vast majority of Americans are Libertarian; they just don't know it.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".
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There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.
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TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
