David Hare Quotes
Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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Even when I was a little kid, I hated to dress up. I hated to put on regular shoes. I wanted to play all the time. I hate to wear any kind of coat or sweater. I've never liked hot. I've never liked to be warm.
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A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.
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What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
