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Quotes by British Authors
"When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities."
"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
"Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog."
"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
"The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal."
"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."
"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
"I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing."
"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."
"You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you."
"The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."
"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"
"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."
"I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off."
"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it."
"A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it."
"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."
"Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!"
"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."
"I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous."
"I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much."
"I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops."
"There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level."
"All we can do is be better prepared today than yesterday and better prepared tomorrow than today."
"Dark nights are unpleasant," "Yes, for strangers to travel,""The clouds are heavy.""Yes, a storm is approaching."
"And I used to go the punk clubs such as a gay club in Poland Street that everyone would go to because it was the only place you could go to looking like that without getting beaten senseless."
"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."
"Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign."
"Two lives that once part are as ships that divide."
"Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate everything, how will I exist? I was somebody who loved Maurice and went with men and enjoyed my drinks. What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?"
"There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside."
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