Eddie McGuire Quotes
It's not a sightseeing tour, I can tell you that. Ian Thorpe says it's the best place in the world to train.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.
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I've always been such a fan of short films - in fact, I never considered that I would actually make a feature. I just thought I wanted to make shorts for the rest of my life. They are a lot harder to have shown and a lot harder to find and see as an audience, but I don't know. It's just a form that I really love. I was just making them for the process, but ultimately, I did get them into festivals, and they did end up on television, and they had as much of a life as short films can.
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Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project one’s own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience.
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It's not a sightseeing tour, I can tell you that. Ian Thorpe says it's the best place in the world to train.
