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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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"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts."
"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated."
"The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly."
"Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity."
"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."
"And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition."
"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
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"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
"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."
"And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing."
"Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old."
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