Samuel Beckett Quotes
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Quotes to Explore
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.
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I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
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I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
