Will McDonough Quotes
I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'
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I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!
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The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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Cricket is my first love.
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I write what I write.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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Government is not show business.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.
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Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.
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Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?
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In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.
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I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.
