Samuel Beckett Quotes
In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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My hunger is always there.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.
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Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
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I've always been so uninterested in playing any kind of archetype of some pure, innocent, virginal woman. I just don't believe it.
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In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
