Patrick Marber Quotes
We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
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I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.
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I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
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Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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The love received is the love that is saved.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses...
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I think education was the key for me, and that's what I tell kids. That base in the classics gave me something to springboard from, which I wouldn't have had if I'd come out to Los Angeles early and been guest punk of the week on 'Hill Street Blues.'
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I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.
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I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class, the only spot they had left was a theater class. It was so annoying, but I took it and then I thought it was the greatest thing; the most socially creative. I dropped out of school immediately and moved to New York to start acting. I was 19.
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If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.
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We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.
