Iain Pears Quotes

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

Iain Pears

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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

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• I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

  

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• The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

  

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• I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

  

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• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

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• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

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• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

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• I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

  

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• I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.

  

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• The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.

  

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• I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

  

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• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

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• I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'

  

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• Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

  

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  

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• Everyone has to eat, so the opportunities in the space are incredible.

  

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  • Home
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• I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here.

  

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• Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor.

  

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• For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Time
  • She
  • Want