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Quotes by English Authors
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
"Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in."
"He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts."
"So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!"
"Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music."
"I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things."
"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."
"I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability."
"I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted."
"The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless."
"I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going."
"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."
"I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject."
"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."
"At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir."
"The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group."
"In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children."
"If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus."
"I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."
"People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star."
"Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with."
"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy."
"It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better."
"I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour."
"It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's."
"Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound."
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