George Barr McCutcheon Quotes
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women’s bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.
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Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by,It's so hard to make every note bend just right.You lay down the hours and leave not one traceBut a tune for the dancing is there in it's place.
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The best mind-altering drug is truth.
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I don't like to objectify the people I play. I always try to go for the truth in any part.
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We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house & divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think – thought about is if only for a few seconds – then we could depart this earth in peace. No-one will light a candle for me. Who would do that?
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He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.
