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Mary McCarthy

"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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Angie karan

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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"Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense."

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"Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man."

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"Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is."

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Mary McCarthy
"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man."

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Mary McCarthy
"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."

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Mary McCarthy
"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."

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Mary McCarthy
"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."

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Mary McCarthy
"If someone tells you he is going to make a "realistic decision," you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad."

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Mary McCarthy
"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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Mary McCarthy
"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."

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Mary McCarthy
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."

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"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."

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Mary McCarthy
"In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality."

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