John McCarthy Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
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His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
