Katori Hall Quotes
Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
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I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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A man becomes successful by repressing his feelings, not expressing his feelings.
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And if you've ever wondered what happens when a person close to you is taken too soon-and it's always too soon-you may find other truths here, truths that may break the grip of sadness in your life, that may set you free from guilt, that may even bring you back to this world from wherever you are hiding. And then you will never fell alone.
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I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.
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I hate you. I hate you like the girl who hates cake because it makes her fat and she can’t stop eating it.
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Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.
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Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.
