Harold Pinter Quotes

All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.

Harold Pinter

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• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Energy
  • Purpose
  • Strength

• I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Good
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• Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Power
  • Words

• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Why
  • Home

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • High
  • Voice
  • Notes

• Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Years
  • Been
  • January

• I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Home
  • Green

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
  • Communist

• The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Over

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Age
  • Old
  • Old Age

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.

  

  Marilyn Minter
  • Unique

• One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it.

  

  David Morse
  • Red

• I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • People
  • Different
  • Suffering

• I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.

  

  Seamus Dever
  • Single
  • Theatre
  • Commitment

• Careless their merits or their faults to scan,His pity gave ere charity began.Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Pride
  • Charity

• All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Political