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Quotes by British Authors
"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
"The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment."
"Said by Colin the dragon:"It's somewhat bizarre to learn that many of you (humans)think that other humans are somehow different enough to be hated and killed, when in reality you're all all tiresomely similiar in outlook, needs and motivation, and differ only by peculiar habits, generally shaped by geographical circumstance."
"We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics."
"TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product."
"Western governments use thermal heating standards for public protection from the damaging effects of wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation. Eastern governments use biological standards that are much lower due to the extensive long term radiation damage that has been seen to occur in humans at the western thermal heating standard."
"Our society's need for escapism has always interested me."
"It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic."
"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
"Enjoy the contented silence."
"The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty."
"I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development."
"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."
"Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels."
"I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1."
"In India everything has a use and a value."
"People don't change just because you know more about them."
"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."
"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."
"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality."
"But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of."
"We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us."
"I see myself on the cover of a magazine and I don't think that it looks like me at all. My first-ever photo shoot was for the cover of a lads' magazine."
"Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I."
"Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood."
"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
"And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale."
"I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring."
"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."
"We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother."
"Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer."
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