Everett McGill Quotes
'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.
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I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.
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You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
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I started very, very young to make movies - I was 21. And at the age of 27, 28, I'd done already three movies.
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I love film. I love going to see films; I always have. I've done quite a few.
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When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
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I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.
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Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.
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I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
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I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.
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When you're sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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When I see something, I go for it.
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My grandmother would give me a beautiful book each year. I especially loved the Beatrix Potter books. They were very detailed. And I promised myself that was what I'd do. I also loved the big words she used. I was excited because I knew what they meant from the context. I put a few big words in for just that reason.
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Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.
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'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.
