Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
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There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
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As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.
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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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I could have been somebody in this world wasn’t for him.
