Harold Pinter Quotes
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.Harold Pinter
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
J. A. Jance -
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
Gaby Hoffmann -
Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
Carl Hagelin -
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides -
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
Brown Campbell -
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
Sam Brownback -
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
Gavin DeGraw -
You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
Vanessa Bayer -
I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
Navi Rawat
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
W. Edwards Deming -
My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
Ice Cube -
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
Ovid -
I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
Yandel Wisin & Yandel
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
M. Night Shyamalan -
At 16, I would wear clothes that hid my body; now I've found clothes that fit me rather than cover me. I'm not skinny, but I'm healthy, and you have to embrace what you've been given.
Ella Henderson -
I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.
Alex Meraz -
They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.
Chadwick Boseman -
I want to do the impossible.
Gustavo Cerati Soda Stereo -
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
Harold Pinter