Everett McGill Quotes

The director can't do your job for you. He can't get in front of the camera and perform your part.

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  Rachel Gibson
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• Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • Community
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• I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Remember
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• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Walking
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• In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Best
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• I believe in doing what I am best at.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Believe
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• I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
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• My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Kind
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• I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Real
  • Internet
  • Fame

• Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Way
  • Talking
  • Relationships

• I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Father
  • Song
  • Nice

• Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Alone

• We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Together

• In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Cards

• New cell phones are my weakness.

  

  Duncan D. Hunter

• Together, we will lead our party back to the White House, and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity, and peace.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Together
  • House

• If I have food in the house and I'm laying in bed, I go, 'I bet that Captain Crunch is lonely in the cupboard.'

  

  Louie Anderson
  • House
  • Food
  • Lonely

• There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician's impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
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• Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

  

  Quentin Blake
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  • Character
  • Positive

• That wasn't because of money, it was because I had a job for the next two days and wanted to work. So I faked a test. That was over two years ago. Why has there been no issue about it since then?

  

  Marc Wallice
  • Work
  • Money
  • Why

• But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Dreams
  • False
  • Tales

• Indian batsmen, including Virat Kohli will find it difficult to score runs against Pakistan.

  

  Wasim Akram
  • Difficult
  • Score
  • Including

• The director can't do your job for you. He can't get in front of the camera and perform your part.

  

  Everett McGill
  • Job
  • Director
  • Camera