Samuel Beckett Quotes
A mask of dirty old hairy leather, with two holes and a slit, it was too far gone for the old trick of please your honour and God reward you and pity upon me. It was disastrous.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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I love working the legislative process.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.
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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.
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Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
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A mask of dirty old hairy leather, with two holes and a slit, it was too far gone for the old trick of please your honour and God reward you and pity upon me. It was disastrous.
