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Quotes by English Authors
"I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work."
"But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England."
"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
"But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people."
"In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking."
"David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience."
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S."
"I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible."
"I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference."
"But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing."
"I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop."
"I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football."
"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool."
"I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff."
"I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large."
"That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species."
"Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going."
"The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture."
"The road to perseverance lies by doubt."
"Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge."
"It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer."
"I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power."
"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."
"David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands."
"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting."
"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend."
"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."
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