- 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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
That brick that you're standing on, that foundation that you're standing on, there's a brick in there that was placed by someone you never knew, sort of a faceless possibility, but you're there now. You have an opportunity to put your own brick in there. That's what it feels like we're doing with 'Hamilton'
- Show
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's never been a show where I did not literally offer my guts on that stage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reach of 'Hamilton' never surprises me. It's always a delight to meet someone who's seen the show.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.
- Garbage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020