Harold Pinter Quotes
I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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'Cooking Lucky' is a show for guys - or girls - or really for anyone who is all thumbs in the kitchen and needs some help cooking meals that are so incredibly impressive they make it look like you've been slaving in the kitchen all day when in reality, they are so effortless to put together that even a moron can do it.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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Coffee is my water now.
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The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
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This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for the ones I'm nominated for. The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was me.
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
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How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?
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Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.
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I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.
