Anthony Storr Quotes
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There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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I am not hungry for roles on TV or in films. I am happy being a social media sensation.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.
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One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
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I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
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A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
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Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
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Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.
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I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
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It's a terrible feeling being lonely.
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As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.
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The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
