Charles McCarry Quotes
I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
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There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.
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The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.
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My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.
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I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
