Patrick Marber Quotes
I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.
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I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.
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What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.
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Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.
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Among the swans there is none called the least, or the greatest.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
