Paul McGann (Paul John McGann) Quotes

If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

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• Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Iceland

• Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Body

• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Experience
  • Job
  • High

• A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Film
  • Lose
  • Los Angeles

• It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Real
  • Fight
  • List

• I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Swimming

• I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Right
  • Champion
  • Olympic

• I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.

  

  Warren G
  • School
  • Kids
  • Care

• Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hand

• Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Business
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• As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.

  

  P. Sathasivam
  • Work
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  • Government

• I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Job

• Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Death

• Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• Why don't I like you?" "Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.

  

  Alan Rickman
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• "The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Work
  • Art
  • Carry

• If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• If I wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, I must not fix my mind on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to me... If I wish to extricate myself from a dangerous position, I must consider not only the enemy's ability to injure me, but also my own ability to gain an advantage over the enemy.

  

  Du Mu
  • Mind
  • Alone
  • Wish

• By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Power
  • Rest

• I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.'

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Friends
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  • President

• As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • May
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• If you're in the so-called public eye you have to watch your P's and Q's.

  

  Paul McGann
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