Charles McCarry Quotes

Other writers tell me about these bushel baskets delivered at the front door. If I've gotten 50 letters over the last 18 years, I'd be surprised.

Charles McCarry

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Watching 'Morvern Callar' was a game changer for me.

Jodie Comer

MeGameWatching

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

Jhonen Vasquez

FunnyWorldCareDoingInnocentSay

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Jerome K. Jerome

LovePeopleStupidMorePleasant

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

Maya Hawke

TimeYourselfYouExpectTakeYour

I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

Robert Glasper

PeopleBetterMusiciansYouBad

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

Travis Bradberry

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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

Rose Tremain

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I mean, it's not important what kind of pants you wear; it's how you wear them.

Ronnie Lott

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To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

Rush Limbaugh

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Miguel de Unamuno

ArtMeaningEmbodiesSensations

After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

Jose Antonio Vargas

FamilyLoveHomePassionCulture

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Douglas MacArthur

NeverOrderGiveObeyed

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