Gary McCord Quotes
If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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A lot of people make records where there are a couple songs worth listening to and you skip through the rest, and I don't want to do that because those records bore me pretty bad.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.
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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
