Patrick Marber Quotes
Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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You don’t win by getting through all your life not having done anything.
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Socrates: The disgrace begins when a man writes not well, but badly.Phaedrus: Clearly.Socrates: And what is well and what is badly-need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?
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I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.
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Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
