T. S. Eliot Quotes
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.
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The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone" - The Forgotten Garden.
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You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think it has to move slowly, step by step. I pride myself on the construction of my stories but it's not something I impose on them.
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My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches the birds get hernias. Well, only last Christmas I gave him a B-B gun and he gave me a sweatshirt with a bulls-eye on the back. I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you."
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Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
