Charles McCarry Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.
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My fans go crazy over jaw clenches. They also love hand veins... they're infatuated with hands in general.
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Everybody's funny in different ways.
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I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.
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There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
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Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
