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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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.
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I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.
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I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.
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You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.
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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
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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.
