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Quotes by English Authors
"Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count."
"What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?"
"A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone."
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
"I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier."
"At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled."
"Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions."
"An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature."
"What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes."
"It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist."
"There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity."
"I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names."
"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without."
"Don't tell me from genetics. What've they got to do with it?" said Crowley. "Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you're going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he'll grow up to be a demon just because his dad _became_ one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me."
"To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential."
"It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group."
"I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression."
"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."
"I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music."
"Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant."
"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."
"Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there."
"It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors."
"The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion."
"My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV."
"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."
"There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so."
"We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs."
"They may not like us, but they can't get away from knowing who we are."
"But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make."
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