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Quotes by British Authors
"When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat."
"When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else."
"Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable."
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
"The house cleared, I shut myself in, fastened the bolt that none might intrude, and proceeded-not to weep, not to mourn, I was yet too calm for that, but-mechanically to take off the wedding dress, and replace it by the stuff gown I had worn yesterday, as I thought, for the last time. I then sat down: I felt weak and tired. I leaned my arms on a table, and my head dropped on them. And now I thought: till now I had only heard, seen, moved-followed up and down where I was led or dragged-watched event rush on event, disclosure open beyond disclosure: but now, I thought."
"If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished."
"Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites."
"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."
"If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants."
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
"Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen."
"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
"Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment."
"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
"There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount."
"I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me."
"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
"My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden."
"But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot."
"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."
"Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons."
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
"A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest."
"Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion."
"We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments."
"We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations."
"Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven."
"The cybermen are good monsters, I think. My earliest memories are of the cybermen from when I used to watch when I was younger. It's nice to have them back."
"Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London."
"The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers."
"You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path."
"The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander."
"The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past."
"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
"My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it."
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