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Quotes by English Authors
"It was most exciting when people first came up on the stage and then when they came back for the encore. We wanted to make a show that kept on developing, that was interesting, so we tried to do that with our live shows."
"There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it!"
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and blessWith fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shellsWith a sweet kernel; to set budding more,And still more, later flowers for the bees,Until they think warm days will never cease,For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells."
"They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world."
"So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before."
"The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence."
"The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction."
"If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life."
"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French."
"Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people."
"Nations have passed away and left no traces And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases They fell because their peoples were not fit."
"It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"
"Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt."
"With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts."
"For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King."
"As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over."
"I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me."
"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
"I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence."
"It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide."
"If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights."
"Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."
"Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place."
"There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay."
"Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may."
"There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (...) However bad life may seem (...) While there's life, there is hope."
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