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 want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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 what I've done, and I know who I am.
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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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In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
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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 love sci-fi. Growing up, I was a big fan of the 'Alien' series, 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,' etcetera. Plus, anything apocalyptic - 'I Am Legend,' '1984,' 'Battlestar Galactica.'
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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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.
