Macaulay Culkin Quotes
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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My health is fine.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
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Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
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It's easy to sort of put a sheen across humanity if you're making a film for people who want to escape their own problems. But sometimes a movie can, in the most cathartic ways, expose those problems.
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I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
