Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it. It's like being in the whirlpools which are always present behind a little rock near a river. We seem to be living in these little whirlpools and forget that there is a whole river. The picture is much bigger.
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The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.
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It's kinda all about image.
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When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.
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I love the free spirit in London.
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
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New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.
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And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
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If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.
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I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky. -John Joel Glanton.
