Harry Bridges Quotes
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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I'm not desperately looking for a man, but I'm sure one of these days, I'll find my Mr. Right.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
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It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.
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I told Bill Gates I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
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I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.
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Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.
