John McCain Quotes
I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I love hoovering. People go to therapists; I've got a Hoover.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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I am expected to be glamorous and untouchable. Like success would make me spoiled and entitled. However, I am just a normal dog-owning, horse-riding, meat-eating Oklahoman.
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The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.
