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Quotes by English Authors
"We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down."
"I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever."
"I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well."
"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."
"Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone."
"What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity."
"We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens."
"Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you."
"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."
"Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much."
"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience."
"I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who."
"It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest."
"Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females."
"Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts."
"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet."
"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."
"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."
"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."
"I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level."
"It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons."
"Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."
"So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers."
"I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career."
"No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it."
"You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances."
"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim."
"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."
"It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous."
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