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• There’s a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. ‘The protagonist must be sympathetic!’ they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, ‘sympathetic.’ I just know ‘interesting.’

  Alexander Payne

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• They say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and I’ve learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you’re asked to do to the best of your ability.

  Jeremy Hunt

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• If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.

  Anthony Horowitz

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• They say I’m a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don’t know.

  Dwight Henry

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• I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

  Cheryl Strayed

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• They say I’m worth either €200 million, €100 million, €50 million or €10 million, but that’s something between God, the HMRC and myself.

  Wilbur Smith

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• They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king’s friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

  Jack Cade

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• What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

  Tom Allen

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• There are certain things that they say you can’t do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That’s why you have so much crime and violence.

  Afrika Bambaataa

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• They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.

  Jack Cade

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• They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn’t matter; certainly, not to me.

  Tom Glazer

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• They say miracles are past.

  William Shakespeare

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• A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

  Bill Clinton

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• They say I’m a revolutionary, but they’re all wrong.

  Ralph Bakshi

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• They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

  Jack Cade

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• They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it’s time for special counsel.

  Bruce Babbitt

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