Zoe Wanamaker Quotes
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
