Harold Pinter Quotes

I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

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• When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

  

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• Geffen was never supportive of the band.

  

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• Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

  

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• I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

  

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• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

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• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

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• There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  

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• Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.

  

  Larry Wilcox
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• I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'

  

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• Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.

  

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• I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

  

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• I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

  

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• 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.

  

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• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.

  

  Becky G
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• When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

  

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• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

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• Richard resumed reading the T’Rain Gazette, a daily newspaper (electronic format, of course)... which summarized what had been going on all over T’Rain during the preceding twenty-four hours: Notable achievements, wars, duels, sackings, mortality statistics, plagues, famines...untoward spikes in commodity prices.

  

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• The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

  

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• I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.

  

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• Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

  

  Billy Joel
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• I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time
  • Great
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