Harold Pinter Quotes
Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.
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What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
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There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.
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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
