Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
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Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add sufficient value to the corporations in the U.S.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
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I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
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I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.
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Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents — the talks, the games, the family festivities and arguments.
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When people 'succeed' they tend to party, when they 'fail' they tend to ponder.
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The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.
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...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...
