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Quotes by English Authors
"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."
"The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon."
"In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art."
"Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti."
"You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor."
"We don't want other people poking into our artistic pie."
"But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble."
"There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today."
"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."
"If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on."
"We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves."
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads."
"The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better."
"The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones."
"When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved."
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."
"I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did."
"The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild."
"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
"Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold."
"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting."
"I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices."
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