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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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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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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My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.
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I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.
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If you take one of the first flights out in the morning, typically the airplane and the crew have arrived the night before. When you're not waiting on an inbound flight, there are fewer delays.
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When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.
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I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'
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All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
