Page McConnell Quotes
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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Cancer has touched my life and the lives of those I love, and now I'm ready to help all that I can in the fight.
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I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
