Paul McGann (Paul John McGann) Quotes
I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
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I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.
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I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.
