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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I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
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A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
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“I’ve hardly ever had to pay to get in.”
