Anthony McCarten Quotes
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.
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We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.
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I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.
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I was one of six kids in a single-parent household.
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The way we do anything is the way we do everything.
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I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.
