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Quotes by English Authors
"It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character."
"No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes."
"Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics."
"A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."
"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news."
"I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off."
"People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question."
"All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit."
"I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?"
"The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace."
"I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind."
"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles."
"Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives."
"The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game."
"God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered."
"I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour."
"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
"I can say I have become far more open about what I believe."
"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."
"My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me."
"Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated."
"Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'."
"I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail."
"This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal."
"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be."
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