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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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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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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I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.
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Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.
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A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.
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The same song on a different day was a different song.
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If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
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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.
