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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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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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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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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The Nephilim was something I'd known about since I was really young. If you're familiar with the first book of the Bible, Genesis, you see the sons of God seduce some of the women on the earth and they produce a race of people known as the Nephilim. According to legend they taught man about war, astrology, and magic. I'm fascinated by the idea.
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
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I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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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.
