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Quotes by British Authors
"If your only goal is to become rich then use Cosmic Ordering."
"The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve."
"I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?"
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
"The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling."
"I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
"True love can be overwhelming, and sometimes painful. It is a kaleidoscope of emotions, all sorts of different colours blending together into one. It's gravity so powerful - an unstoppable force. True love is a natural muse; you will puzzle over it, dream about it, and be lost in it. It consumes you wholeheartedly."
"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
"I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on."
"The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it."
"If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are."
"The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities."
"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."
"Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for."
"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."
"Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves."
"I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy."
"Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change."
"It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us."
"Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies."
"When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it."
"The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual."
"In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton."
"I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one."
"Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself."
"I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me."
"There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work."
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