- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
- Critics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.
- Changed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020