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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Downstairs
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys.
- Freedom Of Speech
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- Nov 07, 2020
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
- Nov 07, 2020
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people don't think I'm English. I've lived in France, and people do think I'm French, but I don't see myself as having a glamorous look.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
When two people meet, and it's the right combination, it does ground you suddenly.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and then other people say, 'Oh, that's chick-lit.' You say, 'Okay.' But it's not like you look around and go to a careers fair and there will be someone at the chick-lit author stand.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't write the autobiographical first novel. I was so, so determined not to write about a 24-year-old journalist. It was going to have male characters, and middle-aged people, so I could say, 'Look, I'm not just writing about my life, I'm a real author.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although it sounds cliche, the main thing I want to do is touch people with what I do. I want everything I do to be meaningful, and I want it to be about more than just myself, or the money.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.
- Suffering
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not even speaking to people any more; I just want to be reading my Kindle the whole time!
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020