Deborah Moggach Quotes
The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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It's very easy to live here. You're anonymous here. Nobody knows who you are.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself
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It sustained me... I can't tell you how much their support meant to me when I was leaving and coming back and even while I was gone, there was a part of me that knew people were pulling for me.
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I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
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He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.
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Maybe I'm naive, but I still have a little bit of faith in the structure of the United States government and thinking that one man can't ruin everything. I don't know if it's just because I'm hopeful or cynical, but I just don't think one man can change everything. It's just like I didn't think Obama could save the country by himself. I don't think Trump can ruin the country all by himself. I don't know. I hope I'm right.
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The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing.
