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"As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later."
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"And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do."
"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."
"Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure."
"Its appearance was greeted with cries of rapture, and following a brief struggle over possesion of the volume, William rescued it before it should be torn to pieces, but allowed himself to be induced to read some of the passages aloud, his dramatic rendering being greeted by wolflike howls of enthusiasim and hails of live pits."
"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string."
"It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon."
"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"
"Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses."
"Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm."
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"People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back."
"These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges."
"The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own."
"Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will."
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