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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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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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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In London, I did feel a pressure to be more avant-garde than I wanted.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'
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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.