Iris Murdoch Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
