Anthony McCarten Quotes
The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I would like to direct.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.
