Laura Wade Quotes

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

Laura Wade

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In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

John Grierson

MoreIndividualValuableOutlook

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Max Eastman

MindStartProcessYouGoalPlay

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

Jeff Daniels

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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business. He loved it so much.

Jeff Bridges

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I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited.

Michael Isikoff

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I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.

Tony Fernandes

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Football has always been my great love. I slept with a ball - really! Even when I started going out with Bouchra - ouha! She must have thought, 'What's this...?'

Robin Van Persie

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I believe Sam Peckinpah is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and I hold him in high regard.

Rod Lurie

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My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

Michael Moore

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The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Donna Tartt

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At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping, and the next day the world had changed. It needed a different language.

Alice Oswald

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For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.

Penn Badgley

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