Norman MacCaig Quotes
All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
Quotes to Explore
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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There's never a dull moment on a David O. Russell set. But that's the beauty of it. That's the magic.
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There are people who didn't like 'The Departed,' you know?
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In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
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The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.
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I am not someone who's very good at looking after herself, and I am also not someone who goes on holiday very often.
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
