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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One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise?
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If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '
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My respect for TSA agents went up a notch. We look at 'em like, 'You can't bother me, I'm gettin' on my flight. Stop wastin' my time.' They're doing it to protect us. Their job is to do everything they're doing. We sometimes don't respect other people's jobs because we're caught up in our world.
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In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
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There is nothing more, I guess, cannibalistic than the metal or the hard rock scene, it seems.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
