Harold Pinter Quotes
Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
Quotes to Explore
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
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Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.
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Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
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How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.
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Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
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Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
