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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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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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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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
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When you grow up in poverty, suffer from abuse, live in a violent neighborhood, come from a broken home, lack positive role models, are told you'll never amount to anything, etc, the challenges are enormous.
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I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.
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SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.
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We have some work that we have to finish up. We had a meeting with the White House last night to try to start to lay out those parameters of getting done.
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In Korea, the director is on top, and the power flows down vertically. On the set, I love to come up with ideas on the spot. But in Hollywood, if I were to come up with a certain idea on set, the idea had to be taken to all these different people who had to agree.
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A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
