Barry McGee Quotes
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective).
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After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
