Harold Pinter Quotes
The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a character actor.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
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As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
