"I used to hate being recognised."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation."

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"In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family."

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"At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience."

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"The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right."

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"Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on."

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"I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest."

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"There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that."

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"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."

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"It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside."

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"I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life."

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