Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
