Samuel Beckett Quotes
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Quotes to Explore
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.
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Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.
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You have to have a talent for having talent.
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I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God.
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A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
