Paul McGann (Paul John McGann) Quotes
The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
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I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.
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Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
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The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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When Jagged Little Pill came out, I feel like I immediately went into survival mode to keep the 'overwhelm' that comes from being famous at bay. Ten years later, I have the luxury of time and distance to formally honor it.
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Europeans have enjoyed a comfy ride for the last sixty years–but the very fact that they don't want it to stop increases their rage and sense of being besieged by Muslim minorities they've long refused to assimilate (and which no longer want to assimilate).
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The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.
