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Always Quotes
Quotes on what stays constant.
These quotes describe things treated as constants - assuming a favorite team will always compete each season, or committing to always use one's art to elevate others. One even reflects candidly on always being honest about taxes. Related pages include Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.
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I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!
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My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.
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As a kid, as a poor-ish, working-class kid, even visiting America seemed like an impossible dream. Every time I ever went anywhere in America, it always felt cinematic and dreamlike and like a movie from the '70s or something.
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I can go anywhere. In fact, for 'Three Billboards,' I was just getting on trains around America. I wrote everywhere from New York to New Mexico. I always write with pencil and paper.
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When I heard the Pogues, I connected with the songs immediately, but it was also the first time I didn't reject out of hand the kind of music that my parents had always tried to push on to us when we were growing up.
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Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
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I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
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I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.
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I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.
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When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.
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Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.
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Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.
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Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.
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