Larry McMurtry Quotes

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

Larry McMurtry

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SuccessCarGreatMoneyStartYou

During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

Anatoly Chubais

MyselfTrainingGovernmentElection

Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

Andy Serkis

CameraArtistActorStorytelling

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

Robert Carlyle

AttitudeYouLateNowViceGone

There are more dog owners in America than there are conservatives.

Roger Stone

DogAmericaMoreThanConservatives

America does not like people being not nice to dogs.

Rob James-Collier

PeopleAmericaNiceDogsBeingLike

The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.

Rose Leslie

AlwaysEveryoneHoneymoonPhaseEnds

I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.

Julia Holter

MusicMeKnowImportantSeriously

Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'

Jonathan Raban

CuriousIslandSeattleLiberal

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.

Diablo Cody

PageKnowHollywoodWriteSeeGone

What you want to do is put people in a position where they feel connected enough to you that they're willing to collaborate with you; they're willing to show you the things that they were scared to tell you about before.

Christopher Voss

PeopleFeelEnoughYouWantTell

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I'm going be training that child out the womb.

Conor McGregor

TimeBrokenTrainingChildMy Own

I feel Motown really exploited me.

Brenda Holloway

MeFeelMotownI FeelExploited

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