Patrick Marber Quotes
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
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Education is so important.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
