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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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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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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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.
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Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
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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.
