Cormac McCarthy Quotes

How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.

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• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • People
  • Long
  • True

• Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Key

• We've all got hurdles we have to overcome, and mine are not necessarily any bigger than anyone else's.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Bigger
  • Overcome
  • Hurdles

• I love guys like Charlie Parker.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Love
  • Like
  • I Love

• Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Country
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Health
  • Government

• I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Band
  • Said
  • Going

• 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.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • She
  • College
  • Fashion

• I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Peace
  • Thought
  • Desert

• 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.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Food
  • Health
  • Information

• When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Say
  • Walk

• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Soldier

• 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.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Different
  • Nature
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Luxury
  • Punk

• 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.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Up
  • Chicago
  • Three

• I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.

  

  Pico Iyer

• My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.

  

  Fritz Hollings

• Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

  

  Christopher Darden
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Live

• How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.

  

  Cormac McCarthy