Caleb Carr Quotes

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

Caleb Carr

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HistoryFocusAngerAngryViolence

There has never been a law passed that I couldn't bend.

Jimmy Savile

LawNeverBendBeenPassed

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

John Cassavetes

TalentHumilityGangsterYouWant

When I was younger - I don't do this too much now - but sometimes if I couldn't sleep, I would lie in bed and imagine all the characters I've played at a dinner table together.

Jefferson Mays

TogetherLieSleepDinnerTableNow

As good as 'Twin Peaks' was, and I mean, it's a superb work that's way ahead of its time, and we've never caught up, and we never will... I mean, we will never catch up to 'Twin Peaks.'

Michael J. Anderson

WorkGoodTimeAheadWayNever

Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.

Steve Erickson

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I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

Tom Stoppard

DayVoiceKnowEven

Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.

Ross Kemp

ProudBoyOhYeahOh Yeah

Shooting a movie isn't good for a sleep disorder.

Mike Birbiglia

GoodSleepShootingMovieDisorder

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

Lorna Luft

MotherDaughterMeQuestionsNever

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

Joseph Murray

MeSlowRejectionPersonSkinOwn

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

Douglas Coupland

FutureTwoEternityThingsDifferent

If we're talking about someone creating something new, those rights are fairly well defined (in the United States, at least) under existing copyright law. But then there's often discussion about the rights of people who produce works under work-for-hire arrangements, which can be far more subtle and nuanced.

Chris Roberson

PeopleLawSomeoneTalkingCreating

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