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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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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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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I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?
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There's plenty of situations where we'll come up with guys on base, less than two outs, and those are opportunities for us to help ourselves out.
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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
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The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.
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I personally don't have anything to say to Mike Pence. I'm very lucky because legislation that he's pushed hasn't affected my life at all. I spoke out because there are people out there whose lives have been affected by change that he's tried to make.
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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.
