Christopher McQuarrie Quotes
I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.
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Funny is an attitude.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I don't do meetings.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.
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I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.
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Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.
