Paul McCartney Quotes
I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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I want to make smart choices.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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I want to be my own person.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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Why does this not occur routinely? Don’t we all know how to ask questions? Of course we think we know how to ask, but we fail to notice how often even our questions are just another form of telling—rhetorical or just testing whether what we think is right. We are biased toward telling instead of asking because we live in a pragmatic, problem-solving culture in which knowing things and telling others what we know is valued.
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Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.
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I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
