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Quotes by English Authors
"One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself."
"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."
"I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say."
"Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list."
"Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person."
"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me."
"Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property."
"Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe."
"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know."
"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true."
"I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues."
"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part."
"Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury."
"My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term."
"But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get."
"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."
"I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?"
"I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand."
"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."
"The cries of the sufferers on the remaining part of the wreck were heard during the night."
"Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it."
"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."
"If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned."
"On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries."
"I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about."
"All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools."
"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets."
"I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium."
"The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame."
"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
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