Anthony McCarten Quotes
Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.
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Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.
