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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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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When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.
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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.
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I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.
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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.
