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Quotes by British Authors
"Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope."
"We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be."
"If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else."
"There is always a need to understand that others don't think the way that you do."
"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."
"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
"I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real."
"When I was researching the book Toxic Electricity, I would see biological reactions for up to a week afterwards. They are typically strong in the first day or two after the electromagnetic field (EMF) exposures and tail off as the week goes on. I would feel fine during the EMF exposures and start seeing weird health effects usually during sleep that night. Extended time around high voltage power lines & power poles were the worst for provoking reactions, followed by wifi and transmitting utility meters."
"I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment."
"But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics."
"But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion."
"There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction."
"Disconnect from society's pressure to conform. Do things your own way."
"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one."
"To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."
"I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists."
"The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head."
"Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me - I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations."
"Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path."
"People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people."
"There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another."
"Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength."
"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."
"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."
"Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in."
"What are men to rocks and mountains?"
"I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare."
"If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region."
"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."
"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."
"I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom."
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