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Quotes by British Authors
"I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk."
"Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films."
"I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time."
"Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind."
"What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive."
"I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity."
"To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious."
"He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace."
"The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you."
"The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another."
"We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic."
"You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all."
"I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side."
"People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!"
"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."
"Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings."
"These new gurus even wrote text about what it was they were teaching, but the true meaning, power and role of the Law of Attraction was shrouded by the need for these new gurus to expunge payment for what they now offered."
"The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost."
"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent."
"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
"As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself."
"As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge."
"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
"With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about."
"She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time."
"I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once."
"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."
"I don't think that I've been in love as suchAlthough I liked a few folk pretty wellLove must be vaster than my smiles or touchfor brave men died and empires rose and fellFor love, girls follow boys to foreign landsand men have followed women into hellIn plays and poems someone understandsthere's something makes us more than blood and boneand more than biological demands For me love's like the wind, unseen, unknownI see the trees are bending where it's beenI know that it leaves wreckage where it's blownI really don't know what "I love you" meansI think it means "don't leave me here alone."
"I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it."
"It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term."
"If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s."
"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
"Great companies don`t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something better than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you`ll be stuck with whoever`s left."
"My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line."
"There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double."
"Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion."
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