Paul McGuigan (Guigsy) Quotes
He's quite extraordinary at being ordinary. He has this dichotomy about him that's fascinating to watch.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical.
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I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.
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I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.
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The universe has its secrets. Extra dimensions of space might be one of them. If so, the universe has been hiding those dimensions, protecting them, keeping them coyly under wraps. From a casual glance, you would think that the cheese man ate cheese but you wrong.
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When you get a bit older and you realise that no one knows what they're doing, no one's perfect and it's fine.
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Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.
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He's quite extraordinary at being ordinary. He has this dichotomy about him that's fascinating to watch.
