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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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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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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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.
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Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.
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New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
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I was just 13 when 'The Big Chill' was released in late September 1983, so I didn't catch all of its nuances when I sneaked into the theater to see it. But I could tell one thing for sure: These people were grown-ups.
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As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.
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I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.
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Someday, I'd like to create a fashionable dance shoe.
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You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.
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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.
