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 did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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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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A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.
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I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.
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I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
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I would expect the family would continue to play a critical role in leading Fidelity. However, the company does not necessarily have to be run day-to-day by a family member. It will be run by the person who is determined to have the right skills and chemistry.
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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.