Samuel Beckett Quotes
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
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I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
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While players say they like the five-day break, they're also saying they don't like the compression that goes along with it, and that's something that is of great concern to us as well.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Now we can see why nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.
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I know that some things are beyond our control, some illnesses are beyond our control, we get sick, we don't know why. But let's pledge to do whatever we can to avoid those high medical bills.
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The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
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I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
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After a gig I get to the hotel all psyched-up from being on stage and get stuck into 'Homes and Interiors' magazine.
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I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
