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Quotes by British Authors
"Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical."
"Disappointment is the end of an illusion."
"Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem."
"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."
"Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament."
"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
"I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up."
"I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom."
"Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New."
"We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing."
"No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them."
"Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation."
"When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone."
"I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine."
"I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men."
"There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty."
"The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament."
"An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay."
"Beware of corporate government cops."
"These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar."
"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."
"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."
"In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them."
"Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them."
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