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Quotes by English Authors
"Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries."
"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections."
"When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene."
"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress."
"In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers."
"But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players."
"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."
"If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead."
"There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial."
"Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree."
"Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish."
"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."
"And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh."
"We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly afterwards. They carry their pregnancies very well-they all looked the same."
"Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process."
"Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control."
"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."
"I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious."
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."
"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
"You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it."
"'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth."
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there."
"The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you, and I am standing in the spirit at your elbow."
"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul."
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
"Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."
"I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time."
"But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business."
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