William McIlvanney Quotes
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
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I just think people should be able to express themselves.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.
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My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.
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I kick-kick game, can't injure Nicki. That's why they nick-nicknamed me Ninja Nicki.
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My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
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Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.
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It felt like I´d been lying on that bed for a thousand years, tormented by every demon possible.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.
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People who take on complicated creative projects become lost at some point in the process. It is the nature of things—in order to create, you must internalize and almost become the project for a while, and that near-fusing with the project is an essential part of its emergence. But it is also confusing. Where once a movie’s writer/director had perspective, he or she loses it. Where once he or she could see a forest, now there are only trees. The details converge to obscure the whole, and that makes it difficult to move forward substantially in any one direction. The experience can be overwhelming.
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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.
