John Steinbeck Quotes
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.
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Greece is not an easy country to do business in.
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It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.
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When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.
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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
