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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
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I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.
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I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit.
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Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?
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I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.
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Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
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Of course, 'True Grit' is a Western, but we never considered our film a classical Western and honestly never thought about genre at all. We didn't talk about John Ford or Sergio Leone, even though we like their films. Really, we were driven only by our enthusiasm for Charles Portis's book.
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It was never an ambition to grow up and win an Academy Award, so when it happens, you go, 'Weird!'
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I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
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In a lot of ways, in high school, I was very much an outsider and never really felt like I fit into any particular clique or group, and so I found myself solo very often.
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I never truly got to know my grandfather before he passed away, but he inspires me to search more deeply to understand myself.
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