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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Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.
Biz Stone -
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.
