George MacKay Quotes
I think, when you're younger, you're slightly spoilt with the situation you get put in and to get to work with the people I got to work with without really thinking about it.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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I am a just man.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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I think, when you're younger, you're slightly spoilt with the situation you get put in and to get to work with the people I got to work with without really thinking about it.
