Kevin McHale Quotes
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I was the muse of Tom Ford and Gucci for years, but that was a long time ago.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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I learned a lot from Direk Brillante Mendoza and Bing Lao.
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There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
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Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.
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I'm really good at not moving my legs.
