Christopher McQuarrie Quotes
A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.
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Right now we are not on a plane list for the next couple of days so that gives us the opportunity to focus on the people who are here.
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That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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For me, if a company is really committed to diversity, that means everything. That means gender diversity, that means sexual orientation for me, that means race, ethnicity.
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A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
