Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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I always played to win.
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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.
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I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.
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'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
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Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
