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• To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

  Erich Fromm

  Hope, Mean, Birth

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.22, Lantern Books

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• I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

  Kenneth Branagh

  People, Dying, Talent

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• Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

  William Blake

  Future, Rage, Remorse

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.343, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

  Jodie Foster

  War, Being Alone, Interesting

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• Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

  Randy Bachman

  Song, Two, Firefighter

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

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Years, Two, Periods

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.

  James Denton

  Cat, Fighting, People

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• There's this huge number of desperate people.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Numbers, People, Huge

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• Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club.

  Kenny Dalglish

  Team, Training, Clubs

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• I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Enough, Conditions

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• Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

  Bobby Charlton

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on.

  Mireille Mathieu

  Heart, Light, Joy

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• My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

  Willem de Kooning

  Lying, Thinking, Way

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Brave, Aggravated

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• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

  Federico Fellini

  Hype, Awkward, Misery

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

  George Lucas

  Survival, Important, Able

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• One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Doubt

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• There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

  Kirstie Alley

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• Are we not all desperate one way or another?

  Taylor Caldwell

  Way, One Way

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• 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Country, Patriotic

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• If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

  Jasmine Guy

  Love, Family, Desperation

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• Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Marriage, People, Argument

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• You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Thinking, Knowing, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

  David Foster Wallace

  Loneliness, Interesting, Being Lonely

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• I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, Desire, Young Writers

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