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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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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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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I was briefly bitter.
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It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the late '70s - there was a lot more guts to art when the Neo-Expressionists were starting up; it was real slapdash; it has real heart to it - but it seems so cold and heartless in America. It's a buyer's market.
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I love the fact that Facebook offers equal leave for moms and dads. Consider that for your company.
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I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.
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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.
