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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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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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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I am surrounded by a small group of young landscapists who will be very happy get to know you. Besides, they are real painters... I find myself very well fixed here. I am drawing figures at hard. And at the Academy, there are only landscapists. They begin to perceive that it's a good thing.
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Reddit offers the opportunity for us as humans to connect on a much deeper, broader level because users have an alter ego and aren't tied to a social network of friends with whom they want to share how perfect their lives are.
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If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.
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My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope!
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I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.
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I always have CNN on. That's where I get my ideas.
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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.
