Gerald McRaney (Gerald Lee McRaney) Quotes
We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
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The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.
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I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.
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History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.
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It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward the niche market, which is, like, a black movie is created and it's produced and pitched so that only black people will watch it ... I want to see dynamic characters and roles that everyone wants to watch.
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I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
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Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.
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No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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They wanted me to have a point of view, to have my mind made up from the start on a number of things. I was to be tolerant but I was not to budge beyond a certain point, and if ever I was threatened at that point, I was to stand where I was and fight. My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. The said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.
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God is serious about how we worship Him, and we must be serious about it, too.
