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Quotes by Andrew McCarthy

Andrew McCarthy

“He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when somebody lies and that throws your trail off a million miles from where it ought to be … the lie is a lot more consequential.”

“He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when somebody lies and that throws your trail off a million miles from where it ought to be & the lie is a lot more consequential.”

“Like in Pretty in Pink for example, people said, Oh, hes so sensitive and lovely in that movie,”

“I was so hung over for that whole movie ... Im thinking, God, I got a headache. I am just dying here. I got to go lay down. But on film it came across a certain way.”

“Stephen Kings Kingdom Hospital.”

“The charging ammunition we had was awful.”

“If you think about it, its obvious why thats so. They have at their disposal the information which really is the top-secret, most precious, national security information that we have.”

“If you are serious about stopping people before things take off, then necessarily your evidence is going to be more ambiguous.”

Travel does this: it creates space that allows thoughts and memories to intrude and assert themselves with impunity. Smells and sights, the quality of light, the honk of a horn -- can all act as touchstones when least expected.

Theres something in the act of setting out that renews me, that fills me with a feeling of possibility. On the road, Im forced to rely on instinct and intuition, on the kindness of strangers, in ways that illuminate who I am, ways that shed light on my motivations, my fears.

But in my clutching, it began to slip away. I softened my grasp and the sense of fluidity returned, I rode it like a wave. ...This paradox provoked in me a sense of freedom and relief-relief that what I was always aware of on a faint, subconscious level was a strong and satisfying truth.

As is often the case when I travel, my vulnerability -- like not knowing what the hell Im going to do upon arrival -- makes me more open to outside interactions than I might be when Im at home and think I know best what needs to be done. On the road, serendipity is given space to enter my life.