George McWhirter Quotes
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
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When I got my MacBook, I started playing around with Garageband a lot. It was just a creative outlet. I put everything into it. I would skip all my classes just to be making my songs. Stuff like that made me feel good.
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The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.
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No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar.
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I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extremely selfish and cocky, and I thought: 'Hey, if I like it, everyone's gonna like it.' Well, it came to fruition, and I chose a character that was not a far departure from myself at all.
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I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
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I never felt particularly alienated as an English person in America. It doesn't feel culturally like a massive gap to me.
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I'm alive and I want to keep living.
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Since I'd developed this fear of not remembering my lines, I took 'Mulholland Drive' as a test for myself. It was a long monologue: no one else speaks.
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My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.
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I still listen to Ginuwine, man. I can still listen to Donell Jones.
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A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together.
