Cormac McCarthy Quotes
It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
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In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.
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Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.
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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
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It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
