A Quote by Pete McCarthy

There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.

Pete McCarthy

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Advantages Chunks Creative Diluted Experience Find Having Huge Phones Time Travel

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Pete McCarthy
English - Writer
November 9, 1951 - October 6, 2004

Unfortunately, the record I did with Motley wasn't exactly a huge success. But working with those guys was a huge learning experience as well as a really creative time, so I had an absolute blast during that five years of my life!

John Corabi

I have huge chunks of time when I'm not working.

Annette Bening

It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

Ben Harper

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Kevyn Aucoin

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

James Taylor

I'm a huge lover of going to the theater and having that experience of people in the room. Any time you go to an experience like this, you hear it in a different way because sound systems are different.

Sandra Bullock

Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift.

Rachael Yamagata

My dad was a huge basketball influence in my life on and off the court. Playing for him and having him around, having him push me harder than maybe another coach would have was a huge blessing for me. Getting to play with my brother was an unreal experience at Oklahoma, in college, it's some of the funnest times I've had in basketball, and I'll cherish those memories forever.

Blake Griffin

It's tough working as a single parent, but I'm lucky enough to have chunks of time when I'm at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care.

Tamzin Outhwaite

I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.

Adam Rippon

Having a family has made a huge difference in the roles I take, so doing a show in L.A. is a huge factor.

Sonya Walger

Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry.

Kenneth Goldsmith

When we cannot find enough extra money for policing, yet we are having huge sums to other countries in aid, it is time to start a serious conversation.

Esther McVey

The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.

Sylvia Plath

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.