Charles McCarry Quotes
People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
Quotes to Explore
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
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I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.
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Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.
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People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
