Everett McGill Quotes
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.
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Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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I've done a lot of comedy recently, so I would really like to explore something else. I am hankering after a really meaty, dramatic role... like Natalie Portman's part in Black Swan.'
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You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.
