Phil McGleno (Mac O'Grady) Quotes
You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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I write novels and other things.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out, 'What's the policy, what's the substance?'
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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I drink therefore I am.
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I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.
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Aspen tree, your leaves glance white into the dark.
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I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.
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If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.
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You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.
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Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
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You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.
