Harold Pinter Quotes
A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.

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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
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People like to compare something to something that they know. Even with Chris Rock, they say he's like Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy.
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A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.
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A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.