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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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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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 are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.
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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
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CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that really helps me, and also having a good understanding of all the action that I'm shooting, it helps me in determining how I'm going to capture it.
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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.
