Patrick Marber Quotes
I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
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When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.
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I've heard a number of our alumni - people who are running schools and school systems - think a lot about different models for the teaching profession.
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The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.
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Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
