Everett McGill Quotes
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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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.
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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.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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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.
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I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
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Horror movies, man, the blood entails so much time. And horror movies are not fun; definitely not starting there as a director. Definitely not horror.
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I watched all the saw movies. They were good. But I think Freddie Krueger or Jason might be the best.
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I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.
