Everett McGill Quotes

I've done soap operas in New York, playing a continuing character who goes through changes and develops, but none of that has created the enduring interest that 'Twin Peaks' has.

Everett McGill

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• A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May

• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Question

• Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Company
  • Gentleman
  • Pink

• Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Rocket
  • Scrutiny
  • Abroad

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Always
  • Eat
  • Watching

• It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Man

• For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Bad
  • Attention
  • Audience

• There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Woman
  • Shoes
  • Walk

• I've never had the patience of a teacher.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Teacher
  • Patience

• In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Sports

• Sexiness comes with maturity.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Maturity

• I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Night

• If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.

  

  Joe Greene
  • Guy
  • Football

• The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.

  

  Fritz Todt
  • Time

• I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • World

• My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

  

  Joe Biden
  • Up
  • Dad

• A box of spaghetti can take seven minutes to cook, and you can make a sauce at that time with perhaps garlic, olive oil, and zucchini. Then you've got yourself a complete meal. The whole thing shouldn't take more than half an hour.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Time

• If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • God
  • Children

• When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • She
  • Hand
  • Mom

• Sometimes I'm attracted to more odd girls with stronger faces and features or a softer beauty with a lot of character.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Character

• You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Created

• I've done soap operas in New York, playing a continuing character who goes through changes and develops, but none of that has created the enduring interest that 'Twin Peaks' has.

  

  Everett McGill
  • Character
  • Interest
  • New York