Tom McCarthy Quotes

Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.

Tom McCarthy

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PeopleStoryYouEventsRightReal

You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

John Berger

PlanYouGoEventsYourAccording

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

Trisha Goddard

GodMyselfThinkingPlanFindNew

I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

Tony Parsons

HateReadingPlacesAlwaysBahamas

Actors should be better poker players. But I think there's actual skill and crazy guts that you need to play poker - this ability to put all this money on the line inside of that game of cards. There's this whole different set of skills that doesn't apply to acting whatsoever.

Tom Everett Scott

MoneyCrazyGameThinkBetterYou

My main ambitions, really, are in the theatre.

Romola Garai

TheatreMainReally

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Marvin Gaye

BestOpponentYourMeansNegotiating

When we are out on the road, running up and down the road playing shows, you have to be not only a member of a band but, especially with Lynyrd Skynyrd, you have to be a part of the Skynyrd nation. You have to be a part of the family.

Johnny Van Zant

FamilyRoadYouDownBandNation

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

Christopher Hitchens

HomeLosingCityFlyAmericanYou

You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.

Clay Shirky

ThoughtsLibraryInternetYouNow

I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

Bob Saget

LoveDoingOldYearsSomethingBeen

Just do your schoolwork, focus on a sport if you're good at it, do what I did.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

GoodFocusYouJustYourDid

A lot of TV can be linear and cinematic and formulaic. What's to say that people can't be creative and surreal - and push boundaries? You can look at a piece of art and not necessarily know what it means or what the artist intended by it. It's the effect it has on you.

Tuppence Middleton

ArtCreativePeoplePushYouLook

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