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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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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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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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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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
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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.
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There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.
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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on, but you don't seem to realize that. Even when love is right there in front of you, you choose to turn away from it. You're alone because you want to be.
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You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.
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The important thing is to keep trying.
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I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.
