Nell Leyshon Quotes
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
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The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!
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Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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I was running around all the time, talking out of turn, a lot of energy, and obsessed with movies. There's nothing I loved more than going to the movies.
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Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
