Clive Bell Quotes
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.
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When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
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Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.
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For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
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I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.
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The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
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I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
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I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.
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If I wasn't making a movie, I was trying to master a new musical instrument or trying to teach myself how to shave with a straight razor. I had to find the weirdest things just to increase my understanding of other cultures or other arts or intellectual pursuits.
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Of course managers win ball games.
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I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.
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I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have great stories and characters. But the soaps will have to keep evolving, won't they?
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Comfort came in with the middle classes.
