George Mackay Brown Quotes
In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too.
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We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
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When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.
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Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.
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In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.
