John McCarthy Quotes

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

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• I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Television
  • Hollywood
  • Quiet

• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Problem
  • Fans
  • Economics

• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Things

• I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Serious
  • Drama

• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Small
  • Thought
  • Stand

• I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Lived

• Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Difference
  • Privacy
  • Secrecy

• If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Figure

• Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.

  

  M.I.A.
  • World
  • Different
  • Tiger

• I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dream

• You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Want
  • Determined
  • Chapter

• While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Practice
  • Learn
  • While

• I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Time
  • Man
  • Intelligence

• Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Thing
  • Details

• Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Work
  • Dignity
  • Presentation

• Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Space
  • Baby
  • Moon

• The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Done
  • Sound
  • Policy

• 'You', the ego, live in your left brain. When we say that man is the only creature who spends 99 per cent of his time inside his own head, we mean, in fact, inside his left cerebral hemisphere. And in the basement of the left hemisphere is the library full of filing cabinets - the stuffy room that we mistake for reality.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Time
  • Live
  • Reality

• I like to make my husband like me more, and he likes it when I'm wearing makeup.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Husband
  • Makeup

• Donald Trump gets a 19 percent higher approval rating than Hillary Clinton does, among military members.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Military
  • Members
  • Donald Trump

• At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar as it may be comprehended by humanity – decrees that the tendency to preserve harmonious equilibrium, shall always be stronger than the tendencies toward discordance.

  

  Geoffrey Hodson
  • Humanity
  • Divine
  • Manifestation

• The record of the race, hitherto accepted as the truth about ourselves, has been the story of facts and conditions as the male saw them – or wished to see them. . . . No secret has been so well-kept as the secret of what women have thought about life.

  

  Elizabeth Bisland
  • Truth
  • Secret
  • Record

• Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

  

  John McCarthy