Walter Besant Quotes
I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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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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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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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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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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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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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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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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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.
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I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
