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Patrick Macnee

"Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed."

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"Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed."

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Amber Hurdle

"Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war."

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Amber Hurdle

"America is the world's top war-master, the most sophisticated killer-culture in history."

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Amber Hurdle

"War didn't scare me. I just didn't want to go all the way-hell over there to fight one. I had a reputation after that--I pretended I shot myself by accident, but everyone knew. I never did lose that reputation, but now most everyone is dead, and y'all ain't got any stories from them, so you have to believe mine by default: They were cowards, too. Everyone is."

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Amber Hurdle

"Somewhere close bye, a man is moaning; he's been trampled or thrown or bitten. He sounds resentful or surprised. Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy."

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Amber Hurdle

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."

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Amber Hurdle

"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we have left to avoid annihilation."

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Amber Hurdle

"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."

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"I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it."
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"These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time."
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"So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors."
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"The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps."
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"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
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"I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies."
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"But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter."
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"Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally."
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"The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it."
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"It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting."
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