Mary McFadden Quotes
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Elves are cool, man.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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Our passions are most like to floods and streams;The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.
