Harold Pinter Quotes
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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I get really excited about other female acts. I feel inspired when I see another women succeeding in music because it makes me realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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I tend to stay healthy because I've been eating right and exercising. It makes life so much easier when you're healthy. I also like to challenge myself by making my own physical goals and beating them.
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An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
