Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.
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I love guys like Charlie Parker.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
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When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
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I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
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I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.
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I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
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My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.
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I think every work is hard in different ways.
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It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.
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I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation.
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With 'Brigade,' we sort of decided to kind of revamp ourselves and put on the military garb and become more of a fighting unit, you know, like the title of the album, and sort of fight for it.
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I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.
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How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.
