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Quotes by British Authors
"These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next."
"The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s."
"I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them."
"I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance."
"I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room."
"When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter."
"Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage."
"Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
"I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me."
"Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression."
"Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft."
"We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size."
"Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere."
"Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things."
"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."
"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."
"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing."
"Fill your mind before you empty your mouth."
"Always walk as if you're running late, it's healthier."
"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."
"Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not."
"We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't."
"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
"They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques."
"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
"Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo."
"You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion."
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