Samuel Beckett Quotes
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.
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I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.
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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.
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No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
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In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
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For cubic U I didn't know how it all got started at all.
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I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
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When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.
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As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
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I loved 'Top Gun.' I watched it all growing up.
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I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.
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It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.
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The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
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I felt weak, perhaps I was.
