Patricia Highsmith Quotes
I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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There will always be a slight difference between the reel and the real. Even my family might know 99 per cent about me, but there will be this one per cent about me that nobody will ever know. Being in this profession, I am fine with biopics or movies inspired by real-life-characters.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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I'm usually woken up by the birds and by my schnauzer, Rafa - for me that's the best start to the day. I jump out of bed, throw on some clothes, and race to the polo ground.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.
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I love kale. I bake it. I sauté it. I juice it. I massage it. I want other people to join the cult-of- kale.
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One of the remarkable characteristics of young wild sunflowers, in addition to growing in soil that is not hospitable, is how the young flower bud follows the sun across the sky. In doing so, it receives life-sustaining energy before bursting forth in its glorious yellow color.
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When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do when you grow up," I realized that there was no pressure on that front. And I remember huge relief: Hey, I can go and do what I really know I have to do!
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
