Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.
When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.
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My dad had a big influence on me, and although I was never very bright at school, I used to love philosophising with him about big universal things - and I think that's what directing is.
I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.
I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.
I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.
The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with...
I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.
I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.
I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.
I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt...
One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.
I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.
A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.
Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.
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Other quotes touch on constitutional rights never explicitly written down, and the constant stream of new problems people have never faced before. See also Always Quotes and Good Quotes.
