Donald Sinden Quotes
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I never use that word, retire.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
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I tend to eat geographically. When I'm in L.A., I like to eat L.A. food.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
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I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.
