Anthony McCarten Quotes
No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading of a book. By this fact alone, we can conclude that readers are nicer people, at least until they put the book down. When we are reading, we are better.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
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You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.
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If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When you can do that, you can write about people.
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I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
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No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading of a book. By this fact alone, we can conclude that readers are nicer people, at least until they put the book down. When we are reading, we are better.
