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Quotes by British Authors
"I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!"
"You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity."
"I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle showed up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is. Physical books are tough, hard to destroy, bath-resistant, solar-operated, feel good in your hand: they are good at being books, and there wil always be a place for them."
"Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon."
"There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook."
"The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war."
"In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor."
"People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift."
"I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to."
"Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?"
"It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat."
"The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances."
"I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid."
"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"
"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky."
"Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage."
"I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done."
"Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."
"It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood."
"With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!"
"At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it."
"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."
"Good acting is consistency of performance."
"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
"If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness."
"Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."
"Beware of corporate government cops."
"Your brand is the value and magic that's not in your bottle, body or box. It's the inspiration, incense, intent and impact before, within and beyond."
"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
"There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind."
"Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time."
"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
"Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things."
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
"Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!"
"I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first."
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
"Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton."
"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
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