Iris Murdoch Quotes
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
