"To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy."

-- Trevor McDonald

#Years Quotes #England Quotes #Certain Quotes

“My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it.”
“I'm not an ensemble actor, because it's always a lot of ego when you're all together in the scene. It's kind of intellectual fighting for something.”
“Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.”
“The one thing that's missing from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and I don't imagine we'll see it any time soon, is that there's no memorial to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died because of how the memory of 9/11 was used. Memory is a very interesting thing. We very selectively curate our story and then stop when it begins to tell other people's stories and forces us to accept some kind of culpability. One reason I write is that there's not enough Muslims writing, Pakistanis writing, not enough people of faith writing about the complexities of our experiences.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I don't think it's unusual to spend time with your castmate.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.”
“Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.”

Source : "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, February 4, 2003.
“I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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