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Quotes by British Authors
"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!"
"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."
"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."
"When you can't get what you want, get what you need."
"I got my lawyer to visit me in the jail. He couldn't believe the bruising over my body, so he pulled the governor and asked why I was covered in marks. The governor said to my lawyer that it was 'self-inflicted' and was caused by my 'running into walls'. That part was disproved because walls don't leave footprints all over your body."
"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."
"It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making."
"Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much."
"I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings."
"What happens in the dark should not be brought to light."
"I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful."
"A respectful woman is a righteous woman."
"Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses "provocatively."
"Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility."
"When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!"
"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."
"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality."
"From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war."
"It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that."
"When we follow what we love, we begin living according to our most admirable values. When we become still and silent, our intuition can teach us what it knows and act accordingly with assurance. And all that really matters is that we follow."
"Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part."
"For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy."
"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."
"The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship."
"Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam."
"In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness."
"It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally."
"I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind."
"I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap."
"Education is meaningless without manners."
"So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state."
"When a person is in fashion, all they do is right."
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