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.

Everett McGill

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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.

  

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• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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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.

  

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• I believe in doing what I am best at.

  

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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.

  

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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
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• I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.

  

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

  

  Maggie Grace
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

  

  Ellen G. White
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• New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food.

  

  Jeremy Lin
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• The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city.

  

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• Throughout Johnson Space Center's history, contributions to STEM innovation and discoveries has been both through new technologies developed to advance human spaceflight and through educating, inspiring, and hiring students in STEM fields.

  

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• I saw someone the other day with yellow on their eyelids, and it looked so fresh. But I thought if I did that I'd look like a clown. So I went and I bought some yellow eye shadow from M.A.C. and I noticed that when you mix it with water it works better. So I tried it, and I looked like Big Bird. I will never do that again.

  

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• I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

  

  David Fincher

• What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night? The only difference is there aren't many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it. 'Well, Bill, the boss thinks you're the right man for the job; why don't you strip down and meet some of the people you'll be working with?'

  

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• I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don't have anything to prove to him.

  

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• 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