Campbell McGrath Quotes
The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.
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When we don't unite, we do a terrible job.
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He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.
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If I wasn't modelling, I guess I would work in fashion as a buyer.
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The fate of farm animals is not an ethical side issue. It concerns the majority of Earth's large creatures: tens of billions of sentient beings, each with a complex world of sensations and emotions, but who live and die as cogs in an industrial production line.
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All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.
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The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.
