Mike McGavick Quotes
Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.
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I called a bunch of the restaurants in my neighborhood that I had assumed served all-organic food, and so many didn't!
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I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.
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Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.
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If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.
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Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.
