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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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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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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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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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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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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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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And God smiled again,And the rainbow appeared,And curled itself around his shoulder.
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But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.
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Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
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Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.
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Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
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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.
