You Quotes
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
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Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
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You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
