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"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
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"Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for."
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"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."
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"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."
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"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
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"Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction."
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"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
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"I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me."
Books
"The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years."
Actor
"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."
Intelligence
"A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything."
Choice
"Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons."
Funny
"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."
Movies
"There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful."
Wife
"If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it."
Control
"My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work."
Work
"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
Class
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