Bill McLaren Quotes
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.
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My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
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Being honest, if I had a daughter I wouldn't want her listening to a Nicki Minaj CD until she was a certain age. Even when I meet my fans and they tell me they are 12, I cringe a little. I always say, 'Listen. I don't want you saying the bad words, put school first.'
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We just needed win - period. We're just struggling so badly right now. Then to lose this would have been bad because we played really well defensively.
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I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.
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What the world needs now is to rock! We’re back....forget the past, the time is now!
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I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.
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I don't want to get over on anybody. If they pay me, I want to be worth it.
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So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.
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“I’ve hardly ever had to pay to get in.”
