John le Carre Quotes
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.
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If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.
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Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
