Rachel McAdams Quotes
With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.
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Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.
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When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.
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One of your tasks is to separate the 'personal' from the 'substantive.' The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.
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When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.
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With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.
