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 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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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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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.
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My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
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My plan is to govern as long as I can.
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I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.
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I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.
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Just like anyone else, I watch a lot of reality TV yet will turn my nose up at some of it, e.g., ABC's 'Splash,' because I think I'm above it.
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But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
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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.
