Anthony McCarten Quotes
Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They're risking their necks.
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If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.
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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
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Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.
