Carl McCoy Quotes
The state of mind and the perception you can get being on stage is amazing. The feeling between us and the audience is definitely like experiencing another level of consciousness. I’d say it has the potential for mass ritual, really. The audience doesn’t have to be aware of that - they can be there just for the music.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.
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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
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The theory of population genetics and experiments on other organisms show that substantial changes can occur in the span of less than 100 generations, which for man reaches back to the time of the Roman Empire.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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The state of mind and the perception you can get being on stage is amazing. The feeling between us and the audience is definitely like experiencing another level of consciousness. I’d say it has the potential for mass ritual, really. The audience doesn’t have to be aware of that - they can be there just for the music.
