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Quotes by British Authors
"I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!"
"Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next."
"Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise."
"Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music."
"If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it."
"The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals."
"I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke."
"It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe."
"I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this."
"He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates."
"We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be."
"These wretched babies don't come until they are ready."
"In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures."
"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."
"Preserve the spirit of a 'lost' age, when time moved slower."
"I stand out not because I am six feet tall,But because I feel six feet tall."
"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
"I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives."
"She sat in a secluded room, she was mad, but she could not accept it; so she was neither sane nor insane. She could not be either until she knew herself, so in limbo she must die. She kept stuffing toilet roll into her mouth. They found her choked to death!"
"Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense."
"Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes."
"Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish."
"Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."
"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."
"Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."
"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained."
"It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars."
"The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come."
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
"I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism."
"The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you."
"Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring."
"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
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