George Mackay Brown Quotes
In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I don't like allegories.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
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One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.
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I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.
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Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.
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In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
