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Quotes by English Authors
"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."
"That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians."
"It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like."
"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."
"Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different."
"A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting."
"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
"The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong."
"I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing."
"I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other."
"Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda."
"And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed."
"Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes."
"Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege."
"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."
"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism."
"People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe."
"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
"Nearly all the synth work on Heathen is mine and some of the piano."
"A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green."
"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."
"I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25."
"I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music."
"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."
"It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed."
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