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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There's this huge number of desperate people.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Numbers, People, Huge

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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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• 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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• I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

  Lisa Bonet

  Art, Careers, Creating

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

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• What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

  William Booth

  Struggle, Men, Preaching The Gospel

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• Are we not all desperate one way or another?

  Taylor Caldwell

  Way, One Way

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• I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

  Mother Jones

  Mother, Children, Men

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

  Kirstie Alley

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• Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.

  William Weld

  Blessing, Boredom, Forgiven

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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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