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"I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things."
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"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
"Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!"
"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."
"I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing."
"Mastery does not exist."
"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."
"Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long, there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so."
"The world will never know you because you did not drain all your potentials to the last drop."
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"When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years."
"But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong."
"I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally."
"I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent."
"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."
"Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it."
"I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion."
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