Charles McCarry Quotes
Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'Charles McCarry
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
Oscar de la Renta -
Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
Naval Ravikant -
I can do whatever I want.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
Sam Raimi -
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
Laura Mennell -
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
Wayne Knight -
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Daniel Barenboim -
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Patrick White -
My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
Halsey -
I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
Ian Somerhalder -
A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
Barry Ritholtz
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.
Olivia Colman -
On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
Daniel Barenboim -
One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.
Eddie Trunk -
I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
Xavier Becerra -
Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
Karen Allen -
If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.
Lisa Murkowski -
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
James Gandolfini -
I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.
William Golding -
One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
Adam Dell -
'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.
Brent Weeks -
Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'
Charles McCarry