Barry McGuire Quotes
So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I just really, really love food, so I don't have a favourite. But if I had to pick one to eat every day, it would be Italian. But I also love Chinese and Japanese food.
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Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.
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The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.
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Hey, we just enjoy it. I think we think we're getting the hang of this thing, you know?
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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
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So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
