Paul McGann (Paul John McGann) Quotes
Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
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I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.
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I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.
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I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.
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I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.
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The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.
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I leave from where the apostle arrived.
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The back story of a songwriter isn't important to me - I don't listen to music needing to know who the guy is.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.
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Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them.
