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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, I never set out to be a whistleblower. Secondly, I never expected that my story would be interesting to anybody. Third of all, you know, I was actually terrified of being named, of being identified.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never met Snowden, I've never spoken with him personally. I mean, he's extremely smart. Very, very smart. I guess he was a lot less naive than I was.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.
- Hesitate
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
- Nov 07, 2020
You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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- Nov 07, 2020