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Quotes by British Authors
"Creative people need strong encouragement."
"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
"I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young."
"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."
"A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight."
"I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home."
"The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader."
"Controlling what you are exposed to remains positive is paramount."
"Let my heart fall into your life. Let my heart fall into your hand. Let it fall, let it fall - my heart to your heart."
"The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics."
"For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them."
"Try to study yourself and what is inside you, as the entire world lies in you."
"Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island."
"The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player."
"It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer."
"Don't settle for a half empty glass, always go for a full one!"
"It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own."
"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
"Once upon a time it took many years of hard work to establish a winning business, but today that time scale has been cut down to months - not years."
"It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species."
"A free spirit is not bound by this, that, matter, materialism or opinion. They sing, dance and flow on the wind - for they are at one with it. They are nothing and everything - void and expanse. Even space and time does not confine or define them. For they are pure energy itself."
"Mad people are very emotionally orientated! They have complex feelings, they're easily upset, but are also easy to please! Most mad people have lonely lives, as nobody understands them. So they become "Lost Souls." They dream a lot. Go within their minds to search - some will turn strange, become dangerous. So a madman is created! His world becomes a mission."
"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself."
"Death was kind. He drew a sharp breath. 'But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child."
"The human has no genetic adaptation to modern industrialized products and needs to be careful with prolonged exposure to these for good health."
"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."
"You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity."
"Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see."
"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."
"Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on."
"Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room."
"The reasons why I left were to do with my interest in Buddhism. There were experiences over a period of about six months which caused me to decide to give up music, so one morning I felt I had to go to E.G. Management and tell them."
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