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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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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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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I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
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Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.
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A lot of books, if you take them at face value, they're just not gonna work as films.
