Patrick Marber Quotes

The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.

Patrick Marber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 19, 1964

Topics

LifeMy LifeEmotionsPlayTrue

I've never had a record in my life. People would buy somebody a record for their birthday or Christmas or something like that. People used to play records in their houses. I used to borrow. I only had about 10 records. That's all I needed. And I'd borrow them from anybody.

Jimmy Savile

LifeBirthdayPeopleMy LifePlay

'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence.

Joanna Scott

LoveBookStoryFeelingAfricaOut

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

Max Lucado

FearGodHopeDeathShadowPeople

I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.

Mason Cooley

ThinkYouMeanSeeI See

My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Miguel Ferrer

WorldPlaceWyomingWholeHole

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

Mike Colter

LifeWorkVoiceTryingYouCapture

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile.

Michael Tilson Thomas

MusicArtPeopleWorldInteresting

People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.

Didier Drogba

GoodPeopleOpinionAfricaUniteUs

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

Donatella Versace

HappinessFunFashionMedicineAbout

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

LifeI AmWriteRealReal Life

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

Christopher Dawson

LifeSocietyChurchCapableImage

We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.

Philip K. Dick

PresentRealityLivingImpression

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