Harold Pinter Quotes
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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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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.
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Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.
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With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.
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A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
