William Trevor Quotes
I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.
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I'm always looking for interesting stories, and I feel in independent film there's more opportunity.
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It is hard to deal with someone who smiles and pretends to like you to your face and sticks that eight inch blade in your back when you turn around.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
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I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.
