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Quotes by English Authors
"I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get."
"I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark."
"The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience."
"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."
"The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come."
"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."
"Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies."
"Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit."
"For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity."
"The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there."
"All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim."
"The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?"
"A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it."
"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."
"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it."
"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought."
"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it."
"If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down."
"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in."
"Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed."
"Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them."
"Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip."
"Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership."
"My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do."
"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
"I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words."
"You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!"
"Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me."
"No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy."
"Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political."
"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that."
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