Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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When I was younger it was - you know, my dad dressed up in drag on 'Bosom Buddies.' And that was what I was having to deal with at the time. And then around the time that I was into college was when he became statue-worthy I guess you could say.
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My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
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The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.
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Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.
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People see what they want to see.
