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Quotes by English Authors
"An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego."
"Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime."
"Has made an honest woman of the supernatural."
"How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."
"The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working."
"Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted."
"Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal."
"I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me."
"He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really."
"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
"The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."
"Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum."
"I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity."
"When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs."
"Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die."
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
"We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now."
"I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort."
"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep."
"But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster."
"This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case."
"I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream."
"However bad life may seem, where there is life, there is hope."
"A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own dilemmas and therefore to marshal the popular will to change and improve itself."
"Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'."
"I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative."
"To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with."
"When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling."
"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."
"I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing."
"Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them."
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