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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I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.
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I really didn't like Batgirl. I was like, "No, if I'm not gonna be Batman, I'm not gonna play." Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.
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Consulting is where product companies go to die.
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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.
