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 do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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That's why I've gotten so much experience at my age. You have three teachers next to you every game, and if I'm not playing, I'm watching baseball. You pick up little things here and there.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.
