Cormac McCarthy Quotes
When they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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I want to play James Bond – are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.
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I've been watching 'Californication' since the pilot aired and had always thought that it would be so much fun to guest star on.
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I worked with a guy, I can't think of his name, him and his wife, and one of them had a saxophone and the other played drums. It wasn't a regular job but I did a few gigs around home with them.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.
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We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.
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At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.
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You can't take credit for talent; you can only take credit for using it.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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When they went down to the bunkhouse for dinner the vaqueros seemed to treat them with a certain deference but whether it was the deference accorded the accomplished or that accorded to mental defectives they were unsure.
