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.

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• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • See
  • Go
  • Easier

• It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Easy
  • Health care
  • Debate

• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Work
  • Theatre

• 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.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Space

• 'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Game
  • Story
  • Fantasy

• 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.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Me
  • Actor
  • Breathe

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• 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.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Stop
  • Successful
  • Ambition

• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture
  • Very
  • Tough

• 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.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

  

  Larry Merchant
  • Talent
  • Youth
  • Hunger

• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Light
  • End
  • Train

• There's never a dull moment on a David O. Russell set. But that's the beauty of it. That's the magic.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Beauty
  • Magic
  • Moment

• I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Music
  • Play
  • Picture

• And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Space
  • Rest

• I think in a creative effort, in any creative effort, you need to, people need to be able to be taking risks and if it turns out to be a mistake, if it turns out not to have been the right choice, that should be applauded, you know, by everybody, and it will come up with another plan.

  

  Brian Henson
  • People
  • Effort
  • Mistake

• I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most people's is: If it works, great. If you're serious and legitimate about it and know what you're looking for, then from what I hear, it's definitely effective.

  

  Nev Schulman
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I'm so comfortable and happy with the woman that I am.

  

  Alicia Silverstone
  • Happy

• There's always two or three players I like, and why I like them, I can't tell you. There's just something about them I think would be great on a team.

  

  Jerry West
  • Great
  • Why
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Norman MacCaig
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