Paul McGann (Paul John McGann) Quotes
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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I've always wanted to make a record.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!
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We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.
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Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.
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If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
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Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.
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Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.
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We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.
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I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.
