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Quotes by British Authors
"What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it."
"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it."
"I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal."
"It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible."
"I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet."
"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
"If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed."
"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."
"I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that."
"A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish."
"To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new."
"It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities."
"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."
"And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings."
"I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before."
"Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy."
"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."
"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."
"A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it."
"You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit."
"I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on."
"I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady."
"When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, 'It's okay. Just remember we had such a good day. Our wedding was so perfect.' Because we're such a unit together. He made me feel very part of the day on April the 29th."
"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
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