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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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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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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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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Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
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Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
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Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.
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Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
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Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
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If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.
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There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray.
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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.
