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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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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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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'That you are regularly facing challenges does not make you an unbeliever. Don’t measure your Christian life by your situation.'
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Both Shah Rukh and Aamir have taught me a lot. I used to be their fan. I had seen all their movies. Once I had even taken Aamir's autograph! Then all of a sudden, I was facing the camera with him! The way these two looked after me and saw me through my initial scenes is something I can never forget.
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You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.
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The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.
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It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.
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You know, when you run for president, you need to be judged by what you have done. I think the evidence is pretty clear.
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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.
