Carson McCullers Quotes
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A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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New cell phones are my weakness.
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I am a Radio 1 DJ and campaigner for women feeling confident at every size.
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I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.
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When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.
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I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
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The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.
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I'm basically always writing. Why wouldn't I? I love it.
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I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.
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I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.
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Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'
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Man should be ever better than he seems.
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Videos are a very difficult medium to be good at and also a difficult medium to consume quickly.
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Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.
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Winning the Indy 500 in 1995 and the Formula 1 championship in 1997 are very special moments for me, and the people in NASCAR show me respect for what I've achieved so far in my career.
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When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.
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We are held up by the radical Muslims as the enemy. So every time we go into one of these countries to do - we think - the right thing, we become propaganda for this radical movement.
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Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.
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The future of our nation is dependent on the future of our families.
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Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.
