Campbell McGrath Quotes

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

Campbell McGrath

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• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

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• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

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• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

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• I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

  

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• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

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• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  

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• Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

  

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• I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

  

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• Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Up
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• When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

  

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• The stress and turmoil that my father had to go through at a young age to make sure that I didn't have the same trials and tribulations, I couldn't be more grateful.

  

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• We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.

  

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• Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

  

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• I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

  

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• It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

  

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• Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.

  

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• It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.

  

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• No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

  

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• Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Pursuit