"As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out."

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Source : "Portrait of the artist: Paul McGann, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2009.

Paul McGann

“Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.”

Source : Henry Clay (1863). “Life and times”, p.28
“What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.”
“I don't think there is anyone in any sport who combined the supreme talent with a great personality. He is also is one of the most wonderful people who ever walked the face of the earth. I don't think there's anybody who compares to Stan Musial on both fronts.”
“Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.”

Source : Jean Giono (2013). “Blue Boy”, p.151, Read Books Ltd
“When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.”
“Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.”

Source : Jack Higgins (2016). “The Liam Devlin Novels: The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, and Confessional”, p.18, Open Road Media
“Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in... I mean, I'm just reporting what I see from the people on the ground, is that it has silenced many pro-American forces in the Muslim world.”
“I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?”

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