- Getting Older
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is a high-level executive at one of the largest media companies on the planet. He leads a worldwide team of more people than I can keep track of. He worked his way up from an assistant with drive and determination.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am one of the most organized people I have ever met, and even with all my planning, I still feel like I'm constantly forgetting things.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, using a notebook every day keeps me on track! Some people use planners; those are great, too.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of 'Private Eye' and a latte.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
- Nov 07, 2020
Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
- Harold
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- Nov 07, 2020