William Shakespeare Quotes
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
Quotes to Explore
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I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
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In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.
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All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
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Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.
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I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
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Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
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I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?
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If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
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I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.
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I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
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The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.
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Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
