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Quotes by British Authors
"I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would."
"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
"I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them."
"No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic."
"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books."
"I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance."
"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."
"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money."
"The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went."
"All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better."
"I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime."
"The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world."
"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of."
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
"I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you."
"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
"I'm just not very good at glamour... It doesn't come easily to me."
"It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed--the two bridemaids were duly inferior--her father gave her away--her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated--her aunt tried to cry-- and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant."
"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."
"We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again."
"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."
"Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?"
"The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl."
"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues."
"Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum."
"One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot."
"Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times."
"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
"I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse."
"I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look."
"I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa."
"As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills."
"He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven."
"Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry."
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