Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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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 think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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When we discern that people are not going on spiritually and allow the discernment to turn to criticism, we block our way to God. God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Slightly overweight, older than the typical groupie and definitely on the frumpy side. All of which.
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I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.
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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
