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Quotes by British Authors
"I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow."
"You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth."
"There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They were melted down into their Master, as a lead soldier slips down and loses his shape in the ladle over the gas ring."
"Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs."
"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic."
"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
"There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level."
"There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain."
"Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank."
"I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world."
"David Cameron is a C-3P0 made of ham."
"I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth!"
"I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you."
"His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is."
"It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all."
"I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such."
"Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart."
"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."
"There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world."
"I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that."
"A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be."
"I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously."
"Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason."
"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century."
"I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful."
"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt."
"Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity."
"Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government."
"By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb."
"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."
"We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us."
"Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity."
"Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky."
"I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst."
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