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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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 can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.
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I have very diverse tastes in music, and I don't, like, make distinctions between what I can't and can't listen to. In fact, I could never understand why anybody would do that in the first place. My attitude is, 'I can't make music if I don't like music.'
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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My career is my girlfriend.
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God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice, and a third time, God still looks for him, "so that he may be converted and live."
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Comfort came in with the middle classes.
