Sarah Kane Quotes
To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
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You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
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Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!
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If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.
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In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.
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Tyler Perry's movies can double what they do domestically with the right plan for selling them around the world.
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Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
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I have great teammates around me who make plays.
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When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to continue to help them see it in those terms to describe our larger purposes. We must assert that libraries are central to the quality of life in our society; that libraries have a direct role in preserving democratic freedoms. Free access to information and the opportunity of every individual to improve his or her mind, employment prospects, and lifestyle are fundamental rights in our society.
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I've watched my mom take a plain piece of paper and create something beautiful out of it, and I think that kind of manifested for me in taking a character from the page and bringing that to life.
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I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do
