- Depend
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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This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable.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
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
- Pretending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.
- Bereft
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never felt bereft of anything.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.
- Nov 07, 2020
This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a 'suffer in silence' type; I'm a 'let's throw money at the problem' type - I've done reflexology, reiki, psychotherapy, counselling. I've never actually had analysis, but I'd like to try that sometime.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to have a neck. Everyone else has a neck, but I never got one; I don't know what happened. I'm not asking for much: just some sort of separation between my head and my body would be great.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once played a character called Mr. Jonathan in something called 'Razzle Dazzle.' I was a choreographer of children's pageants. That was something I never imagined doing. It did great in Australia.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real life.
- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020