Campbell McGrath Quotes
There is nothing romantic in the poverty of artists except to those who ogle the starving
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
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What came out of 'Ocean's Twelve' is actually great because you do one 'Ocean's Twelve,' and you're more known around the world than if you did 20 years in the French cinema industry.
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The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
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Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.
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The natural world is dynamic. From the expanding universe to the hair on a baby's head, nothing is the same from now to the next moment.
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The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
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I think it's a bit shocking for people when pop stars say anything out of the safe zone.
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There is nothing romantic in the poverty of artists except to those who ogle the starving
