Neil Tennant Quotes

When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

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• Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.

  

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• I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.

  

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• I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

  

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• My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  

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  • Life
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• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

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• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

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• Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
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• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

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• We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.

  

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  • Being
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• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

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• You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

  

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• When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

  

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• In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.

  

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• I don't want to be submerged by depression.

  

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• I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

  

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• I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

  

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• When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

  

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• I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

  

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• The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

  

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• If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

  

  Anna Held

• I think when I was a young person, there was just kind of - there was very little dialogue about it. And there was just kind of one way to be gay, right? You saw very effeminate guys. You saw very butch women. And there was no kind of in-between. And there was no - you know, there wasn't anything in the media. There wasn't anything on television.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Women
  • Gay

• My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

  

  Jack Roy
  • School
  • Kids
  • Gay

• When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Gay