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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A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
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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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My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.
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Sometimes we just go back to the hotel and sleep because we're really tired. Other times we'll be really hyped up and want to go out and do something -- basically make our own fun. Because we're all teenagers -- and you know what teenagers get up to -- we influence the older people to do teenage stunts, which is pretty funny. I won't mention any names, because we'll probably get in trouble, but we took this guy egging... like we were egging all these houses. It was too funny. Just being a hooligan, being an idiot really -- but nothing illegal.
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I'm just glad it wasn't Machete Night.
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Living on hope is like being hungry all the time.
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Here's a fact: I absolutely understand the humiliation of being stopped for no reason other than driving while black.
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Comfort came in with the middle classes.
