Kevin McCarthy Quotes
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I' gets bigger and bigger, and the 'we' gets smaller and smaller.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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Every place you go to, they have their own little flair.
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We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.
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Small business creates more jobs than large corporations.
