Anthony McCarten Quotes

It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

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• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
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  • Important
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• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
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  • Kids

• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
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  • Know
  • Mom

• I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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  • God
  • Love

• Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

  

  Iman
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  • Interesting
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• Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

  

  E. L. James
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• I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.

  

  Ed Harris
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  • Real
  • Character

• Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.

  

  Maika Monroe
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  • Surfing
  • Kiteboarding

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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  • Believe

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.

  

  Manika
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• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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  • Children
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• I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• I really enjoyed working with New Zealanders as crew members, as teammates. They're great, and it's a beautiful country. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and I've traveled quite a bit.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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  • Mother
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• To be able to read and write, therefore, is to learn to profit by and take part in the greatest of human achievements - that which makes all other achievements possible -namely, the pooling of our experiences in great cooperative stores of knowledge, available

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
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  • Knowledge

• The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
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• I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

  

  Freeman Dyson
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• No one wants to kill Schengen, but if it is only a fairweather system, then it cannot survive.

  

  Mark Rutte

• Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

  

  Chad Smith Chickenfoot
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• It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

  

  Anthony McCarten
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