Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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We should all love animals.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
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Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker's own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a one-size-fits-all approach.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.
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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
