- Good Moments
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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
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.
- Ability
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.
- Bike
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- Nov 07, 2020
My big advert was for ketchup. I come home from school, cook my brother and sister their dinner, ride my bike in the garden. Remember that one? People cried at that advert. It won awards. I was 12.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020