Charles McCarry Quotes

I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.

Charles McCarry

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SwimmingBookPoolSecretOutHead

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

Maya Lin

WordsYouGoalDownEditingNeed

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

John Major

GoodTimeMenLongYouLook

I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.

Jeff Nichols

GoodChildStartInnocenceYouSee

One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.

Tom Peters

CommunityExcellencePeopleProblems

I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.

Tom Conti

DayWritingSayingOne DaySomething

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And I'm always afraid I didn't get those 10 seconds.

Louis Garrel

WorkGoodHopeDayGood WorkDone

The kind of programming that C provides will probably remain similar absolutely or slowly decline in usage, but relatively, JavaScript or its variants, or XML, will continue to become more central.

Dennis Ritchie

KindWillBecomeMoreProgramming

There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.

Debra Granik

YouCallFilmDocumentaryInterviews

I don't care to read about Garrison Keillor. We cover the same sort of territory, and I don't need to know anything more about him.

Donald McCaig

CareKnowMoreNeedHimAnything

My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'

Christian Slater

LifeMotherLiveMeHurtThree

I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.

Chuck Noll

LifeWorkFootballYouProfessional

A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.

Anton Corbijn

LifeChangeMeStartFeelRight

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