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Quotes by British Authors
"Performance is your reality. Forget everything else."
"Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
"An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!"
"A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief."
"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."
"First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!"
"I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it."
"It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon."
"I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training."
"I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child."
"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."
"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."
"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
"Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
"All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you."
"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."
"Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear."
"I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes."
"Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian."
"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
"Reality is in the ether, a blend of present-day experiences infused with one's memories and dreams. A life that is real to one is surreal to another."
"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."
"Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you."
"In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it."
"I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury."
"All choice of words is slang. It marks a class. "There is correct English: that is not slang. "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."
"Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told."
"The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals."
"There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it."
"I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now."
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