- Nation
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Fervently
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never forget my first moment of looking out on a convention audience with my mouth open like they were kidding me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you're never supposed to complain about being too busy because it can go the other way real fast.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an actor gets a role, especially in series television where he really is the part, the audience never thinks of another actor playing that role. If they accept you in the role, then they can't separate the actor from the character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
- Grunge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really followed grunge.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
- Nov 07, 2020
Never argue; repeat your assertion.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
- Democratic Process
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- Nov 07, 2020