Samuel Beckett Quotes
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
