Harold Pinter Quotes
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art 'lives' where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the 'self' vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
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To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.
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Eleven years after the discovery of their bodies, no one has been held accountable for their murders. The chief suspects in the chain of command, including the camp commander, have never been charged.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
