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Quotes by British Authors
"O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude..."
"If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him."
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."
"Human requirements are the inspiration for art."
"The more you give, the less you need."
"Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I do both when I am trying to get things done."
"Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical " there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?"
"In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy."
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
"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."
"Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness."
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
"Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention."
"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
"You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling."
"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
"Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!"
"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."
"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
"There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment."
"I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own."
"I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'"
"I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it."
"Everybody got it wrong. I said I was into porn again, not born again."
"In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes."
"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."
"No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."
"Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart."
"I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple."
"I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings."
"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."
"I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self...God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually."
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