William Trevor Quotes
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Whereas when I worked with Bob Hope, he didn't know his lines. He had to have these huge big cards... he hardly said two words to me all day.
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It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their own. Once you start to perform it live, this happens even more so than in the studio. They really start to develop a personality that takes shape over time with the audience.
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I think a lot of people truly underestimate how much planning is involved in a teacher's work cycle.
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I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.
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I would love to do a British period drama.
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People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
