P. D. James Quotes
I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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If I met Jack Nicholson, I would probably get a little flustered. Not going to lie. I've watched his movies since I was so young. Such a fan.
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Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.
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The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.
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I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
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For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
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I was a handyman in an office building across from Penn Station for two entire summers while I was still in school and the summer after. I had to wear a big, gray jumpsuit kind of thing that had the name of the company in a big patch on my chest, and I was sent to fix things and didn't know what I was doing.
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Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.
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They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.
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I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
