Christopher McQuarrie Quotes
Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I like things simple.
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.
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How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.
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'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.
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Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.
