Mary McCarthy Quotes
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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If you want success, be unique.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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Really, having a gun registry and having to rely on the government to keep it secret, the government isn't so great at keeping confidences.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
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You're going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That's not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture.
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I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.
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There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.
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For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
