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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Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
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After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.
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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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Going to Broadway - then to be invited to the Tonys - I really tap into what that feels like now to fulfill lifetime goals.
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We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.
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Dark Helmet : So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
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I just try to keep healthy more so than trying to be thin.
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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.
