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.

  

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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
  • Money
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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.

  

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• I'm a very lucky girl.

  

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• The show became popular as aspecialthing became popular. And Sasquatch, the guy who runs that site, started coming to every show and reviewing it. And when people start talking about the reviews from the stage. That to me is really self indulgent and we tried to put a caper on that.

  

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• Besides what have poets, in any case, to do with sin? They must dance before the Ark of the Covenant or die! But what am I trying to say?

  

  Anna Akhmatova
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• Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
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• Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
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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