Muriel Spark Quotes
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.
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'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?
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Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.
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You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.
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I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.
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I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
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The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
