Barry McGee Quotes
It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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A military base in a country like Afghanistan is also a web of relationships, a hub for the local economy, and a key player in the political ecosystem.
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I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
