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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the profits the oil companies make.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Men seem to think that page 3 girls are only interested in money. Money doesn't impress me at all. Not in the slightest.

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

People seem to think I'm Satan.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth.

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.