Macaulay Culkin Quotes
I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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I can be very passionate but I also have a bit of a hot temper - when pushed.
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The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
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I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
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I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
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The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.
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What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.
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I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.
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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?
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What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
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I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.
