Damian McGinty Quotes
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.
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The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
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I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.
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We Franz Marc & Kandinsky thought up the name Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) while sitting at a cafe table.. .Both of us were fond of blue things, Franz Marc of blue horses, and I of blue riders. So the title suggested itself.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
