Harold Pinter Quotes

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Harold Pinter

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Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.

John Gregory Dunne

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My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.'

Andrew Dost

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I heard my brother's voice even though we were apart. I then answered the phone and found him on the line.

Maurice Gibb

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What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

John Sentamu

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I've had to fight to improve my life. Nothing has come easily.

Ana Ivanovic

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If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.

Ruth Reichl

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I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.

Louis Theroux

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I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Joyce Meyer

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Be prepared to fall out of love with your words. I'm still too verbose at times.

Josh Elliott

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I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.

David Yates

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Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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