John Osborne Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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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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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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You must be prepared to work always without applause.
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
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I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards to the environment or anything else, really. I have very little faith in politicians.
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I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.
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There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
