Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
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I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
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In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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I'm not saying Cubans don't deserve asylum, but if it is a national security issue, there are people who are coming from Cuba on hijacked airplanes. Why isn't that a national security issue?
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My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.
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To found a family. I think it would have been easier for me to found an empire.
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Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer is like a cloud, pushed all around, always dependent on the exterior world. That's what I sometimes feel as a pain and an error.
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All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
