Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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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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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 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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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.
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In 'Mother's Day,' which is directed by legendary director Garry Marshall, I play a mother figure to the character played by Jason Sudeikis from 'Saturday Night Live.' He's a widower, and I'm a mother who's helping him to get over the loss of his wife.
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My feeling is... when you show up to a movie set where there's, like, 50 people standing around and months of preparation gone into it, you want to be as prepared as possible, so you should make a million baguettes. That might not actually help in any explicit way, but it'll make you feel more prepared.
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There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
