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Quotes by English Authors
"Actors are the only honest hypocrites."
"Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms."
"There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act."
"Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy."
"I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting."
"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
"Nimbus is doing a great service with these excellently produced transformations of piano roll recordings."
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
"I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together."
"The best of friends fall out, and so his teeth had done some years ago."
"The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. Music is a delight because of its rhythm and flow. Yet the moment you arrest the flow and prolong a chord or note beyond its time, the rhythm is destroyed. Because life is a flowing process, change and death are its necessary parts. To work for their exclusion is to work against life."
"This government has always said increasing pay is something for something."
"The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content."
"Clothes are but little loss, if you escape from drowning."
"She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need."
"Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?"
"Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?"
"No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest."
"Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms."
"Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in."
"To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give."
"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."
"It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up."
"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes."
"As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to."
"I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy."
"The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
"I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another."
"If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal."
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