- Just
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad had a big influence on me, and although I was never very bright at school, I used to love philosophising with him about big universal things - and I think that's what directing is.
- Girly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Superior people never make long visits.
- Nov 07, 2020
I will never turn to God.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.
- Exhilarating
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020