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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Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
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When I read the diary of former 'Daily Mirror' editor Piers Morgan, I realised it was a tough old world to be part of.
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Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.
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In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.
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I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.
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I could have been somebody in this world wasn’t for him.
