Kevin McCarthy Quotes
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
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When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
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My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.
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You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
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I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
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There are many paths but only one journey.
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I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
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My style during the day is very casual - boyfriend jeans, T-shirts, Converse, Uggs, whatever. At night, I love heels and thigh-highs, I like something fresh and new, and I'm not afraid to push the envelope.
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My favorite decade probably the '60s, because there were hardly any rules and heroin hadn't shown up, so people hadn't started dying. It was incredibly upbeat, and we almost did change the world. I guess that was the best one.
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I can't remember a time when I stepped into an airport or train station without wishing I were somewhere else, doing almost anything else. Just thinking about traveling gives me the willies. Traveling and dyslexia don't really get along.
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You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.
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I don't want to become Washington.
