Andrew McCarthy Quotes
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991.
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Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'
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Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.
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I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.
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Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.
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It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.
