Colm McCarthy Quotes
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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'See, we don’t go in for your so-called ‘birth control’ here. No abortion. No contraception. We accept the gift of life when it is given. We believe that every human being, from the moment of conception on, has a right to a life-although,' he added, 'not necessarily a long one.'
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History, that is to be written tomorrow ...to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.
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... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.
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Science fiction is boring when someone starts explaining the science to me.
