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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The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.
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My self-image it still isn't that alright. No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people go to see my movies, I still have the idea that I'm that pale no-hoper that I used to be. A pale no-hoper that happens to be a little lucky now. Tomorrow it'll be all over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.
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I haven't seen that many gay movies, but I haven't loved a lot of the ones I've seen.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.
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I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.
