A. S. Byatt Quotes
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
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I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my goal is to, at the very least, effect a physiological response - at the most, to effect some sort of state change, ideally, in the audience.
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The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the same as hitting your employee or wife, and the issue become pretty clear when you think about it that way.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.
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Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.
