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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I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.
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If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
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It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.
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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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From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
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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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Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!
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Yao was great (Sunday). He was posting up and hitting those shots. He's in great shape now, probably the best shape I've seen him in since he's been playing in the NBA.
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All this narcissism is rather boring, isn't it?
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Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.
