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'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
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We are under government's control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
