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Quotes by Welsh Authors

"I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work."
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
"I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work."
"There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see."
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Christian Bale
"There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see."
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"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."
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Anthony Hopkins
"We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap."
"I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning."
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Kelly Jones
"I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning."
"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end."
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
"For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end."
"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."
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Richard Burton
"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."
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"I'm the slowest driver in the world."
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Anthony Hopkins
"I'm the slowest driver in the world."
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"I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there."
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Anthony Hopkins
"I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there."
"Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society."
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Robert Owen
"Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society."
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"They lard their lean books with the fat of others work."
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Richard Burton
"They lard their lean books with the fat of others work."
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"What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart."
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Raymond Williams
"What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart."
"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
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Dylan Thomas
"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
"Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols."
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John Bach
"Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols."
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"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living."
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Christian Bale
"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living."
"So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall."
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Henry Vaughan
"So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall."
"All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer."
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Robert Owen
"All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer."
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"If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it."
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John Cale
"If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it."
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"The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment."
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Ivor Novello
"The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment."
"It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction."
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Dave Edmunds
"It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction."
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"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."
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Arthur Machen
"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."
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"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."
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Jon Ronson
"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."
"I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it."
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Bonnie Tyler
"I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it."
"As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving."
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Tom Jones
"As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving."
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"Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing."
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Christian Bale
"Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing."
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"Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality."
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Gwen John
"Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality."
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"I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world."
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Taliesin
"I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world."
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"It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis."
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Arthur Machen
"It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis."
"Diplomats were invented simply to waste time."
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David Lloyd George
"Diplomats were invented simply to waste time."
"Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country."
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Bonnie Tyler
"Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country."
"But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near."
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W. H. Davies
"But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near."
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"So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush."
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Bonnie Tyler
"So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush."
"I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you."
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Bonnie Tyler
"I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you."
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"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."
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Shirley Bassey
"I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same."
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"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."
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Ron Davies
"What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity."
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"Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory."
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Giraldus Cambrensis
"Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory."
"I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer."
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Ivor Novello
"I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer."
"All software sucks."
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Alan Cox
"All software sucks."
"Politics is a blood sport."
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Aneurin Bevan
"Politics is a blood sport."
"I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar."
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Henry Morton Stanley
"I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar."
"We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel."
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Samuel Marsden
"We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel."
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"You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not."
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Christian Bale
"You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not."
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"I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that."
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Christian Bale
"I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that."
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"You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous."
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Bonnie Tyler
"You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous."
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"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."
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Christian Bale
"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."
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"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."
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Dylan Thomas
"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."
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"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."
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Anthony Hopkins
"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."
"I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages."
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Christopher Love
"I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages."
"The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do."
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Raymond Williams
"The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do."
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"Do not go gentle into that good night."
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Dylan Thomas
"Do not go gentle into that good night."
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