Nigel McDowell quote: "Though I would say this: if you are very fortunate, you will live long enough in this life to achieve a complete and blissful ignorance."

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NIGEL MCDOWELL

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I love doing every role I do!
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

There are no great scripts - just great films.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there'...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just on...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, th...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherw...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are jus...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try ...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous inte...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out ...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these other...
JOSH MCDOWELL

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said &...
JOSH MCDOWELL

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
JOSH MCDOWELL

It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary....
JOSH MCDOWELL

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical i...
JOSH MCDOWELL

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the...
JOSH MCDOWELL

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.
JOSH MCDOWELL

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to le...
JOSH MCDOWELL

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, t...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that pro...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
JOSH MCDOWELL

The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empt...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that...
JOSH MCDOWELL

For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as bein...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the ma...
JOSH MCDOWELL

The downfall of the church will not come from a lack of apologetic teaching; it will come from disin...
JOSH MCDOWELL

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Chr...
JOSH MCDOWELL

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown ...
JOSH MCDOWELL

It's been a long day.
BOB MCDOWELL

We just wanted to see what we could contribute.
BOB MCDOWELL

The magnitude of the destruction was unbelievable. ... The scope of the conditions down there is jus...
BOB MCDOWELL

We had to take a big knife off one guy who we rescued. That's not anything that should be a surprise...
BOB MCDOWELL

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection...
JOSH MCDOWELL

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unu...
JOSH MCDOWELL

I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

It's definitely a very feminine season. There's just a huge variety out there, which is good because...
LAURA MCDOWELL

Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

We elect Democrats to the Congress to give us stuff and we elect Republicans to the White House so w...
CHARLIE MCDOWELL

In my home we are having to water every day, every night. I've put new plants in, some have died, so...
SUSAN MCDOWELL

Always have a little sweater with you.
LAURA MCDOWELL

My greatest asset now is my focus.
JOSH MCDOWELL

The excitement hasn't worn off. Now, the preparation starts to come to fruition. It's like with a ne...
ROGER MCDOWELL

Obviously the success Leo had here was pretty much second to none. Hopefully we will continue that s...
ROGER MCDOWELL

My job is to get pitchers better. Walking into the Atlanta Braves [organization], you know the histo...
ROGER MCDOWELL

Everybody seems to be progressing right where they need to be. It's been a tremendous help, because ...
ROGER MCDOWELL

I wouldn't take back anything that I have done because it's who I am. I like to make people laugh. B...
ROGER MCDOWELL

Frame everything in the same color frame. A grouping of things with similar frames has a sophisticat...
LAURA MCDOWELL

We hope she can definitely repeat that. Liz was going crazy when they announced where we were going....
CASEY MCDOWELL

When she speaks it is as if very thick olive oil is pouring vigorously over gravel chippings.
COLIN MCDOWELL

[Her] fingers are brandished as a crazed and half-starved Chinese would use chopsticks.. They prod a...
COLIN MCDOWELL

WHY BELIEF MATTERS,
JOSH MCDOWELL

The biggest threat of course is flash flooding. This is a very wet storm, it's going to drop a lot o...
JOSH MCDOWELL

If you look at cosmology, which is the study of the origin of the universe, whatever begins to exist...
JOSH MCDOWELL

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any nega...
JOSH MCDOWELL

I've got lots and lots of anxious moments ahead thinking that we are just one hit away, one bunt awa...
DAVE MCDOWELL

After one week, it sold a million records. Then it went on to sell five million. I was 26 years old ...
RONNIE MCDOWELL

My most memorable moment was seeing a Mercedes Benz trash truck. They had Mercedes Benz' over there ...
STEPHEN MCDOWELL

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just en...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships
JOSH MCDOWELL

At the end, you have to look at the positives. You have to look at the year we had.
CASEY MCDOWELL

If we can eliminate those turnovers, then we will definitely be right there with them.
CASEY MCDOWELL

We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-...
JOSH MCDOWELL

We were in fact their first test. I thought we did a good job working all the way through until the ...
DAVE MCDOWELL

We played well. They have a good pitcher and we hit her and you have got to feel good about that.
DAVE MCDOWELL

I'm not afraid to tell anyone I'm very demanding. I'll accept physical errors, but mental errors are...
DAVE MCDOWELL

Having a champion at 171 pounds, sooner or later you're going to have to make him an Athlete of the ...
DAVE MCDOWELL

To advance as a sophomore is a tremendous accomplishment.
DAVE MCDOWELL

That's a real bonus. It doesn't matter how good you hit. To get the ball in the cup takes a bit of l...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

Things haven't been great for me recently. I'm working hard on my game and relish the challenge that...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

I left my putts short on the ninth, 10th and 11th but the birdie on the 14th gave me something good ...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

The Masters is going to be a special tournament,
GRAEME MCDOWELL

Monty was so easy to play with. He's pretty automatic in terms of hitting fairways and he makes all ...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

It's a brutal golf hole.
GRAEME MCDOWELL

I played nicely today but 18 kicked me in the butt a little bit. It's a cruel game and to be honest ...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

Golf is a cruel game.
GRAEME MCDOWELL

You know how frustrated I've been getting for the last month or so. I've been playing good golf but ...
GRAEME MCDOWELL

The 17th hole will be a lot of fun, ... I may go straight out and hit a shot there when I arrive.
GRAEME MCDOWELL

The time to learn that is not when you're in a crisis.
JANET MCDOWELL

You better have somebody seeing sexual assault victims who is willing to provide emergency contracep...
JANET MCDOWELL

Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He w...
MICHAEL MCDOWELL

He was the last great director of that era. He was the big daddy.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL

Right after RIM hit the million-subscriber mark in February 2004, there really has been an uptake in...
JEFF MCDOWELL

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for y...
LAURA MCDOWELL

I think people love throws because it's a quick way to update the room.
LAURA MCDOWELL

The whole quilted look is very popular but in bright, vibrant jewel tones.
LAURA MCDOWELL

Our typical customer is a woman, 25 to 34, who is shopping for herself and her home. Honey Creek Com...
LAURA MCDOWELL

You can wear a lighter-weight Bohemian skirt if it's light out. If you want to wear it at night, and...
LAURA MCDOWELL

Surf and skateboarding - all these looks are influencing boys fashion.
LAURA MCDOWELL

The Bohemian look is the hottest look right now.
LAURA MCDOWELL

There aren't any rules in terms of one thing that's in. There are a lot of different trends, which i...
LAURA MCDOWELL

Obviously, this is exciting. It's special. No, make that real special, given the history of this org...
ROGER MCDOWELL

People in Berkeley are suckers for a cause. They're really willing to put their hands where their he...
MICHAEL MCDOWELL

My vision is to put this country and the British people first and for us to divorce ourselves from p...
NIGEL FARAGE

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up wi...
NIGEL REES

Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
NIGEL KNEALE

Brexit will happen.
NIGEL FARAGE

My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the s...
NIGEL HAMILTON

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get sl...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was b...
NIGEL HAMILTON

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just eas...
NIGEL HAMILTON

What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - w...
NIGEL HAMILTON

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collatera...
NIGEL HAMILTON

We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON

In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a mon...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneui...
NIGEL HAMILTON

At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON

For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn...
NIGEL HAMILTON

As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON

We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.
NIGEL FARAGE

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.
NIGEL FARAGE

I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best...
NIGEL MANSELL

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
NIGEL LAWSON

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
NIGEL SHORT

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rus...
NIGEL MANSELL

Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
NIGEL HAMILTON

I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.
NIGEL LAWSON

The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get th...
NIGEL MANSELL

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.
NIGEL HAMILTON

I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy year...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I belong to the Boston Biographers Group - and get my monthly 'fix' from them. Where else ca...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our s...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Both JFK and George W. Bush were the sons of wealthy U.S. ambassadors and thus privileged to meet di...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I'm fascinated by the concept of what I call 'clusters of creativity': the Brontes, the ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American po...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Ceza...
NIGEL HAMILTON

To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin&#...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focu...
NIGEL HAMILTON

President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval g...
NIGEL HAMILTON

In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.
NIGEL HAMILTON

Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' pre...
NIGEL HAMILTON

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after t...
NIGEL HAMILTON

It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!
NIGEL HAMILTON

Some of the History Channel's documentaries involve docudrama segments and are highly speculativ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation t...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of driver...
NIGEL MANSELL

To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of g...
NIGEL OWENS

How can you compare my life to any other MEP? I mean, come on, it's crackers, isn't it? Look...
NIGEL FARAGE

The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.
NIGEL CUMBERLAND

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your o...
NIGEL KENNEDY

No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the...
NIGEL LAWSON

The successful conduct of economic policy is possible only if there is - and is seen to be - full ag...
NIGEL LAWSON

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
NIGEL FARAGE

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I'm very passionate about.
NIGEL BARKER

I once died my hair blonde, and it looked like an orangey-red carrot top. It was the '80s, and I...
NIGEL BARKER

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly in...
NIGEL FARAGE

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like C...
NIGEL KENNEDY

We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high sp...
NIGEL LAWSON

If our system of cabinet government is to work effectively, the prime minister of the day must appoi...
NIGEL LAWSON

Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with - in terms of access to do...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure ...
NIGEL FARAGE

If you take away people's identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their f...
NIGEL FARAGE

Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been train...
NIGEL LYTHGOE

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are ...
NIGEL FARAGE

I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis.
NIGEL FARAGE

There is no Left and Right any more. Left and Right is irrelevant... We need big change. We've g...
NIGEL FARAGE

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running....
NIGEL SLATER

Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to ...
NIGEL FARAGE

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
NIGEL LYTHGOE

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Ful...
NIGEL LYTHGOE

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe...
NIGEL FARAGE

I'm happy to help Crest Whitestrips on their mission to inspire photographers everywhere to capt...
NIGEL BARKER

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner ...
NIGEL SLATER

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.
NIGEL SHORT

This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does n...
NIGEL FARAGE

In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved...
NIGEL LYTHGOE

I suppose, being in politics, it wasn't a job - it was almost a calling. It dominated my life, s...
NIGEL FARAGE

Though I would say this: if you are very fortunate, you will live long enough in this life to achieve a complete and blissful ignorance.

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Though I would say this: if you are very fortunate, you will live long enough in this life to achieve a complete and blissful ignorance.

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