Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.
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What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of us.
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Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.
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When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going.
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The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika.
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For the Earth is a globe in a void the truth there's no up nor down to it.
