William Shakespeare Quotes
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
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I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.
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Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
