Angus Deaton Quotes
My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I know what poverty is.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
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Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible.
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Where we are as a nation is due to having an openness to the people of the world. It's incredibly important. I firmly believe that we cannot shut our borders to immigrants. I think a fair and just immigration policy is good for our country and good for our society.
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My work on happiness is the only thing I've ever done where I've heard people in the supermarket talking about it, for instance.
