- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think The Hulk really hit a chord with me, I love the Hulk. But, I never dreamt I'd be playing Doctor Doom.
- Creative Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have liked to do. I'd always wanted to write a book - not a small undertaking. I never felt I had the time or creative energy to spare in order to write one as well as I wanted.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought about competing in the Olympic Games when I was growing up.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he's all hung over. He doesn't notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point?
- Edgar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really got any attention until I was on MTV. I became a household name because I was on every day from 3-4 P.M. I wasn't prepared for it - how mean they can be in the press.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can never resist Ruritanian intrigue: I was once charged with the task of offering the Estonian throne to Prince Edward. Feeling like a Dumas Musketeer on a mission, I did so, but he turned it down.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can take away the experience of Yeltsin's freedoms, but Russian democracy will never follow Western models: other authoritarian 'controlled democracies' - Turkey, Taiwan, Mexico - ultimately developed into democracies. But it took decades.
- Hungry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lenin had just reflected that the revolution would never happen in his lifetime when in February 1917, hungry crowds in Petrograd overthrew Nicholas II while the revolutionaries were abroad, exiled, or infiltrated by the secret police.
- Explicitly
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- Nov 07, 2020