Harold Pinter Quotes
It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.

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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I'm not a Republican.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Life is a school of probability.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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I don't care how rich and successful a man is. He's nothing without an education.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture.
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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.
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It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns.