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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I hate how when I have a bunch of events going on and I have to get my hair done so much, [then] I have to wash it more often. It's definitely better not to.
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When I do things, I'm all-in.
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V-necks are great because you can get a little fat and you still look kind of good - and I like to get fat sometimes, so it's nice. I like to fluctuate between the world of skinny and fat, so V-necks suit me well.
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There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
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The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, … I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.
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Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
