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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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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It is always a mistake to underestimate the little people of the world, for it is often they who tip the balance.
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If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.
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In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.
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So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
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We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.
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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.
