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Quotes by English Authors
"But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were."
"A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one."
"Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was."
"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
"When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War."
"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
"Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus."
"The music industry over there seems to treat America like it's one territory even though they got offices in different parts of America - they're still quite sort of 'America is the territory.'"
"I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days."
"I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do."
"Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about."
"We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible."
"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."
"But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter."
"It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is - my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful."
"I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day."
"What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely."
"Be intent on the perfection of the present day."
"At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet."
"Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die."
"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."
"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
"What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?"
"It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
"Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul."
"It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me."
"The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing."
"All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate."
"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."
"It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it."
"No-one really feels self-confident deep down becuase it's an artifical idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persucted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you."
"Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece."
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