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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
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"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
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"What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!"
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"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
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"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."
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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."
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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
Sense
"What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history."
History
"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five."
Age
"It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes."
Music
"They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!"
First
"After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it."
Job
"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."
Children
"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."
Children
"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England."
Cruelty
"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
Acting
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