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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I think what's dangerous about marriage is the way it can make you feel like you've got it all wrapped up. Like you're done: you've found your spouse, you've married him or her, and you don't need to think too much more about it.
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I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'
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I’ve said many times that statistics reveal a surprising city: one that has more movie theaters than Paris, more abortions than London, more universities than New York. Where nighttime has become sparse, desolate, the kingdom of only a few. Where violence rules, corners us, silences us into a kind of autism.
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It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
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My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.
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It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.
