Susan Hill Quotes
I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
Quotes to Explore
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be some hooked structure in her cells that twist her toward all that the world calls freakish.
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I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don't define you. It's what you stand for, what you're willing to do, how close to the truth you're willing to be in your life.
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I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
