Harold Pinter Quotes
All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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I always loved performing and being on stage.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
