William Gibson Quotes

Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

William Gibson

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
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• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

  

  Ram Shriram
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• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
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• A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
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• When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• My characters hope for better lives.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

  

  Earl Warren
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  • Place
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• Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  

  A. S. Byatt
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• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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• I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

  

  Ian Watson
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• I'm a very lucky girl.

  

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• I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.

  

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• Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

  

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• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

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• I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

  

  William Gibson
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Giving