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Quotes by British Authors
"Make your having dinner out become The Event of the Night, instead of just the beginning."
"No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward."
"If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over."
"This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all."
"For aspirants upon the spiritual path, each manifestation provides clues as to what needs to be released or cleared in order to continue to ascend."
"My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits."
"The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs."
"Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial."
"Always let your heart sing, no musical talent needed."
"We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together."
"In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away."
"I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was."
"Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women."
"It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous."
"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."
"The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques."
"Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and Itrembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life. The gross vapors of earth were gathering around me, and closing in upon my inward heaven; and thus it was that Mr. Weston rose at length upon me, appearing like the morning star in my horizon, to save me from the fear of utter darkness; and I rejoiced that I now had a subject for contemplation that was above me, not beneath."
"It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them!"
"The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it."
"You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either."
"We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on."
"When the only exorcise you get is running for a bus, get more buses!"
"If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient. [25 February 2010]"
"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."
"One summer at the fag end of the nineties, I had to go out of London to talk to a literary society, of the sort that must have been old-fashioned when the previous century closed. When the day came, I wondered why I'd agreed to it; but yes is easier than no, and of course when you make a promise you think the time will never arrive: that there will be a nuclear holocaust, or something else diverting."
"I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do."
"Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line."
"Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon."
"The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in."
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