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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Many black men leave because they are financially responsible-not because they are emotionally irresponsible.
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We will never have total control over this extraordinary dimension. Time will warp and confuse and baffle and entertain however much we learn about its capacities. But the more we learn, the more we can shape it to our will and destiny. We can slow it down or speed it up. We can hold on to the past more securely and predict the future more accurately. Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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You don’t think of Shakespeare being a child, do you? Shakespeare being seven? He was seven at some point. He was in somebody’s English class, wasn’t he? How annoying would that be?
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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.
