Michael McKean Quotes
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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The past has always been the handmaid of authority.
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The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.
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A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.
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Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced . . . can you realize how much the modern world owes to the Hebrew prophets, whose monotheism and moral teachings entered into Christianity and Islam.
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Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
