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Quotes by English Authors
"New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?"
"It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity."
"I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then."
"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
"We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends."
"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important."
"Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of TinAoviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that LAothien TinAoviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved."
"If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?"
"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
"At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past."
"The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths."
"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other."
"I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it."
"I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features."
"Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice."
"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation."
"Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?"
"We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs."
"I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do."
"Schumacher wouldn't have let him past voluntarily. Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it."
"There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again."
"It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine."
"We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show."
"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well."
"I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."
"I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career."
"The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."
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