David Hare Quotes
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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Alcohol does kill brain cells, because you've lost it.
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For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as I do.
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The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.
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'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny.
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
