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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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 do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
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You can be great just by being yourself.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.
