Walter Besant Quotes
I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.
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If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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A lot of times I go to the gym and I see people and they don't know how to work out. There's no routine or anything like that. I saw a guy who I haven't seen in five years and the guy looks the same as he did five years ago.
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I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
