Claude Maxwell MacDonald Quotes
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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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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For people to even think that I'd be considered or a good candidate for a supporting actress nomination is mind blowing to me.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.
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The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
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It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'
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Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.
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'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'
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Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
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I want to know why people are getting laughs. Why this joke works and why that one didn't work. It all comes back to helping me be a better WWE Superstar. So I love it.
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In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
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I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.
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I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.
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Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youve made too much of it, to remember it doesnt define you.
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What isn't tried won't work.
