Patricia Highsmith Quotes
I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .
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I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
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I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.
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Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . .
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The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
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I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.
