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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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 feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.
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I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
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I feel like I learn something new every day, and that's what's exciting about my job.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.
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All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
