John McGahern Quotes
I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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Strong families are vital to strong societies.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!
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Unless 'Wii Fit' stops acting like a mean girl, it's over between us forever.
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I don't remember [when I first visited the Berlin Zoological Garden]. To me, it was important that [in Germany] I could drink Coca Cola. In Romania, my father had bought me a bottle every now and then. To me, that was something really special. And mom and dad always told me, 'We are going somewhere you can drink as much Coke as you want'. To this day, Coke means so much more to me.
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Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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For we seek not the worldwide victory of one nation or system but a worldwide victory of man. The modern globe is too small, its weapons are too destructive, and its disorders are too contagious to permit any other kind of victory.
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I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
