- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
A first impulse was never a crime.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
- Nov 07, 2020
We all have these emotions, but you never really want to own up to sadness. You want to bury it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Hello Kitty will never speak.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.
- Boarding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.
- Moving On
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movie-making is an extreme sport on many levels. It requires stamina such as I had never imagined.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the not-for-profit world, I never felt that being female was an impediment. I was, however, given my break into commercial theatre by a female producer, Judy Craymer, and women - in particular, Donna Langley, president of production at Universal - were crucial in giving 'Mamma Mia' a home in Hollywood.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020