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Quotes by English Authors
"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."
"So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it."
"Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill."
"When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure."
"What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches."
"Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves."
"Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right."
"Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling."
"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard."
"He had a suspicion of plausible answers, they were so often wrong."
"Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness."
"I was always jealous of something getting more attention."
"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."
"I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise."
"All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that."
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read."
"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
"A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people."
"I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up."
"They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys."
"I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician."
"This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records."
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
"Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually."
"I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12."
"I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really."
"You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!"
"So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting."
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
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