Anthony McCarten Quotes
The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became a parent. I feel music more intensely. I think of my political ideas as ideas about how I want to interact with other human beings as opposed to abstract theories about how the world should be.
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I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravitated towards because I loved the story of an average teenager having super powers.
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It's exciting for me to be home in California where I'm from and to be working with Victoria's Secret.
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The young people have a phrase for this now, which is "slay in your lane." That's a very important principle of writing. You have to work out what it is you can't do, obscure it, and focus on what works.
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In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.
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The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.
