Cormac McCarthy Quotes
Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.
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Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
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I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.
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In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.
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You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.
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Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.
