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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.
- Tradition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that I had to train with intensity and focus, but I never thought about the weight on the bar.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were all blocked from western media, outside information. We were captured in a virtual prison cell. People would disappear in the middle of the night - not every day, but sometimes. We hear about it, and we never knew what happened inside the prison camps. I learned about them after I escaped.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In communism, we never had any freedom - of movement, of speech, of press. We didn't even make own decisions for our lives, our future. We were human robots.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'W,' I did not change a word in the script. I have never spoken this much in other series. I just stick to whatever is written. I always carry the script with me and read it before I sleep.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020