John McCarthy Quotes
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.
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I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.
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My family is very feminist, and they consider that Islam is not a super feminist religion, which I know people can argue about. But that's - anyway that's how I was brought up, so it would be odd for me to suddenly just up and start wearing a headscarf.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
