Christopher McQuarrie Quotes
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race.
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.
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While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
