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Quotes by English Authors
"I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on."
"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
"Consumption may be regarded as negative production."
"Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction."
"It doesn't really exist; it's just basically lots of different stages between the two pieces, and you end up with, like, a third shape that doesn't exist but is suggested to you by the image."
"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."
"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."
"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."
"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."
"I was in Yorkshire. We were a family of five and I used to be sent sometimes to get the rations for the week and I was easily able to carry them back. It was like one egg and a tiny bit of tea."
"The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening."
"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."
"When I choose a role it's either because I recognise the man, or that I'm very curious to know him. If I neither recognise nor know him, then it is better that I don't play him."
"I like to browse in Cartier, Chanel and Gucci and if something special grabs my eye I splash out."
"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
"Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy."
"Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone."
"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."
"No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen."
"Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge."
"You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days."
"If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians."
"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."
"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."
"The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven."
"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."
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