Things Quotes
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I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.
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Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
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They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although I'm in favor of both. It's shelter that concerns me, and it's nice to be doing something people are interested in.
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The necessary fiddling about and moving things can be greatly facilitated by a bit of forethought.
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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
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Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
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I'm interested in psychic phenomena, I'm interested in things that are happening invisibly beneath the surface.
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I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.
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You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.
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I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
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When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to give me extra reading and writing. And he always knew that I was interested in stuff but he never told me that he was in the Second World War himself. One day he gave me his helmet that he had worn through the North Africa Campaign. It was just before he died. So I've got his helmet. That was pretty special to me.
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The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
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You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
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I love to put myself in a situation where I get to break a few things and construct a few cells in me.
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I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.
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I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away in the back of your brain. Even if you aren't consciously thinking of them, I think they simmer. You're working on them, even if you don't know you're working on them, and I think having something in your head for a while is a valuable thing.
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A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
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Figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
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Things can move so fast that you don't have time to catch your breath or think about the next move.
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The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.
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Things aren't going well right now. I'm in a very bad slump.
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The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
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[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there - I knew they were, and felt their dreadful ever-changing shapes.
