Christopher McQuarrie Quotes
For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
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I was an English major in college!
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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People like to talk about their hometowns and their travels, and the more places you've been, the more likely you'll be able to make a connection that can bring new business leads or career opportunities.
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The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
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A mom has to be ready for anything.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
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That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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What a dawning appears to the man or woman who earnestly inquires, 'Who is living my life for me?' Am I really thinking for myself or am I unknowingly projecting acquired ideas which may be all wrong?
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Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.
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Fear shuts people down. When you feel safe, your brain is free to soar. When you feel in danger, your brain goes into survival mode, not peak performance mode. Too many people feel unsafe at work, under toxic pressures, and stretched too thin. They are literally about to snap. Within an atmosphere of trust and what I call connection, a supervisor can create conditions under which people's brains can set aside fear and fly high.
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For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
