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Quotes by English Authors
"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage"."
"My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain."
"The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling."
"If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign."
"Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised."
"Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart."
"The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well."
"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
"You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before."
"I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare."
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
"You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately."
"Where should I go?" -Alice. "That depends on where you want to end up." - The Cheshire Cat."
"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."
"I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material."
"No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being."
"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had."
"To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge."
"Often there's a BA crew, because half the time we stay at the same hotels, especially in Australia. I can remember spending quite a lot of time with crews around the pool there. They always make themselves known to us."
"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business."
"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
"The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use."
"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."
"With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do."
"Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it."
"There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for."
"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
"I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
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