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 think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
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You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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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.
