Harold Pinter Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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You look at De La Hoya, and you think that he is an actor or a singer. I'd like to rearrange a couple of things on his face so the pretty boy becomes just another boxer.
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We hope 'Toy Story 3' looks amazing but still retains the character design of the first film. I like to think it looks like 'Toy Story' would have looked back then had we had the skills and the technology.
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Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.
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The creative process is often wrapped up in bottomless anxiety, and when the world applauds the product of that process, it soothes the anxiety. Briefly. Then the anxiety returns and even intensifies.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
