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 hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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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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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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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.
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It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.
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I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do.
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I do feel I have a hard time dealing with things being OK.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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People see what they want to see.
