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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Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
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That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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To me, that's the important issue about spiritual principle: that you recognize it as both that which saves you from the self-sabotaging mind and that which heals you and lifts you up when you succumb to it and attract whatever personal disaster you attract.
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History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force.
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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.
