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Quotes by British Authors
"I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him."
"Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days."
"As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform."
"Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing."
"Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth."
"I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever."
"We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future."
"I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon."
"A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know."
"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
"I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium."
"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."
"I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!"
"It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes."
"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."
"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."
"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization."
"The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice."
"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."
"When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling."
"I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book."
"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."
"I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me."
"An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful."
"It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation."
"Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in."
"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."
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