Everett McGill Quotes
I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.
Everett McGill
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
Hamza Yusuf
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
Orhan Pamuk
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No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.
Hannah Murray
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I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
Ian Hacking
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If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's kind of the version of Harland you'd get - silly, kind of always saying wacky things.
Harland Williams
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
Frances McDormand
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My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it ‘uncertainty’. When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, “You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.”
Claude Shannon
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I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.
Joseph Kosinski
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For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.
Bill Burr
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Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.
Thomas Sowell
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I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.
Everett McGill
