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Quotes by English Authors
"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."
"I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish."
"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."
"I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer."
"The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God."
"I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies."
"Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer."
"Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown."
"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."
"I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage."
"When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey."
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
"That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls."
"It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly."
"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants."
"And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it."
"Anything where people have to work together makes me cry."
"Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ."
"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance."
"We feel there is already widespread broadband available today."
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
"No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness."
"A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day."
"It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true."
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