Brian Morton Quotes
One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it’s become like the movie business, where a movie has to “open big”; if a book hasn’t caught anybody’s interest in the first two weeks of its life, it’s not going to.
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I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.
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Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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I have no secrets.
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Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.
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I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.
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There are few secrets in football. So execute.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.
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The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
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Sphinxes without secrets.
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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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Things keep their secrets.
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I believe in holding still. I believe that the secrets we hold in our hearts are our anchors, that even the unspoken between us is a measure of our every promise to the living and to the dead. And all our promises, like all our hopes, move us through life with the power of an ocean liner pushing through the sea.
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Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
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I trust him implicitly but that doesn't stop women coming on to him. It infuriates me when women approach him [Ioan] and kiss him full on the mouth right in front of me. They obviously don't think of me as any competition now that I'm a brunette. I think I might have to go blonde again!
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
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Soames, for example, who suddenly broke away after twenty years’ teaching and went off to be jokes editor to a firm of matchbox manufacturers.
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One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it’s become like the movie business, where a movie has to “open big”; if a book hasn’t caught anybody’s interest in the first two weeks of its life, it’s not going to.
