Mary McCarthy Quotes
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
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I've directed independent film.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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For America to get more entangled militarily in Syria is a serious step, and we have to do so making absolutely certain that we know who we are helping; that we're not putting arms in the hands of folks who eventually could turn them against us or allies in the region.
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When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.
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Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.
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It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
