Norman MacCaig Quotes
It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
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I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
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A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
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I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.
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I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
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No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
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Write to one person, not a million.
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I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going to happen a hundred years from now. I try to concentrate on what's going on right now. But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
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First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.
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I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
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It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
