Harold Pinter Quotes

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

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• I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Music
  • Small

• My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Change
  • Best
  • Easy

• I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Happy
  • Eyes
  • Blues

• There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Roles

• Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Today
  • Car

• Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Security
  • Capacity
  • Internal

• With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Father

• Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Great
  • Success
  • Best

• There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Dad
  • End

• I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Think
  • Words
  • Feelings

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Suffering
  • Anxiety

• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Director
  • Favorite

• I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.

  

  Holly Hunter

• Why so many of us a million years ago purposely knocked out major chunks of our brains with alcohol from time to time remains an interesting mystery. It may be we were trying to give evolution a shove in the right direction - in the direction of smaller brains.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Why

• Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Believe
  • May
  • True

• To ask the hard question is simple, The simple act of the confused will.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Question
  • Simple
  • Confused

• A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Said
  • Rebel

• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Said