Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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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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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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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'm a singer, and I never lost sight of that.
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It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.
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I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'
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Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
