Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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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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Our best thoughts come from others.
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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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If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.
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I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
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Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.
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Every reporter inhales skepticism. You interview people, and they lie. You face public figures, diligently making notes or taping what is said, and they perform their interviews to fit a calculated script. The truth, alas, is always elusive.
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A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.
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I could have been somebody in this world wasn’t for him.
